The Great Wave Never Came

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THE GREAT WAVE NEVER CAME


SYNOPSIS: A low quality digital video footage about surfers on the beach in the city of Lima. While images describe a group from the middle class enjoying a leisure moment, the sound is about a disaster. The juxtaposition creates an atmosphere of something more violent, but it never comes. The gray and gloomy city always ignores the ocean: but now it attacks Lima and the space of icy water turns in a metaphorical limbo.

DIRECTOR: Paola Vela

TECHNICAL INFORMATION: Peru / 2013 / SD video with sound / 3 minutes / b & w / 4:3 / screening format: DVD, MiniDv, MPG4 file.