Part of the trilogy "A Contraluz", three short films by Eduardo Chapero-Jackson completed with "Lightborne" (2007) and "The End" (2008). Premiered in official selection at Venice and pre-selected for the Oscars, this film whose main character is Macarena Gomez, tells the story of a young woman, obsessed with her appearance, who tries to become a mannequin.
Mairy, a thirty-year-old woman from Philippines, works in a village in Cyprus. She takes care of Mr. Michalis, an eigthy-five-year-old man with arteriosclerosis.
A young man walks into a meticulously clean and sterile bathroom and proceeds to shave away hair, then skin, in an increasingly bloody and graphic bathroom scene.
A young boy gets caught stealing a sheep and is shaved of all his hair and branded with a mark on his forehead so that everyone will know that he is a thief and not to be trusted.
A man wakes on the ceiling of his bedroom and breaks a lamp to alert his wife to his predicament. She puts on her heavy boots, unstraps herself out of her bed and uses a hook on a pole to drag him back down.
A re-enactment of the Jules Durand case. In 1910, Jean Jaurès [leader of the French socialist movement] took the lead in defending a working-class coal miner, Jules Durand, accused of complicity in and condemned to death for the murder of a labor leader.
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Contracuerpo (2005)
Título original: Trilogía 'A Contraluz': Contracuerpo Año: 2005 Duración: 15 min. País: España Director: Eduardo Chapero-Jackson Guión: Eduardo ...
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Contracuerpo short film by Eduardo Chapero-Jackson. Prosopopeya Producciones Distribution: FREAK
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CONTRACUERPO
Corto realizado por los alumnos de Comunicaciones del IESTP Cepea.
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