Competición Oficial 2022

Rendir los Machos

David Pantaleón | 2021 | 80'

SYNOPSIS

Alejandro and Julio are members of the Cabrera brothers, the most respected cattle and cheese producing family in the north of the island of Fuerteventura. Don Guillermo, the family patriarch, and his two sons have not spoken to each other for many years. After the schism, the care of the father and the business falls on Alicia, the only daughter.

BIOGRAPHY

David Pantaleón

David Pantaleón (1978, Spain) is a filmmaker who works with short films as a major art form and has built a filmography based on cultural gesture, humor, form and provocation. Pantaleón, born in Gran Canaria in 1978, has a degree in Dramatic Art and teaches acting at the Escuela de Actores de Canarias. Currently, he has more than 25 works under his belt. With La pasión de Judas, one of his most international works, he received the SIGNIS Award at the Oberhausen Festival. El becerro pintado (2017) premiered at the Rotterdam Festival. Other works to highlight are El polinizador (2016), Tres corderos (2015), Fiesta de pijamas (2015), A lo oscuro más seguro (2013) or Fondo o forma (2011), these last two, together with La Pasión de Judas, form the trilogy of cardboard stories, made in various workshops and with the collaboration of people with functional diversity from the Occupational Center of Valleseco (Las Palmas).

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Critical text

Between tradition and modernity, David Pantaleón's Rendir los machos appeals to the immobility of the times through its fixed device. With essential allusions to Gus van Sant's Gerry and his understanding of the neo-western by making the horizontality of the landscape and the dividing line between heaven and earth its vanishing point, the Canarian director's debut film is lost in the distance of a vast desert.

Rendir los machos uses the horizon as an unreachable point for the Cabrera brothers, whose father has just died and who must cross a great distance along with their cattle in order to inherit. Within the tradition to which the rite responds (whose three precepts are that the cattle arrive alive, that both brothers manage to carry out the enterprise and that it be on foot), Pantaleón's film comprises a series of formal claims that dance between the epic and the absurd. Full of dualisms and a dose of humor that refer to the seriousness of the task at hand, Rendir los machos will blur the distances between the brothers, as well as the cartography of the landscape.

Next to the space framed in an impassive way, the individual will remain deprived of the strength to continue and will have to look for new ways to achieve his goal. Thus, the journey will become evidence of a cultural change as amusing as it is exciting. BORJA CASTILLEJO CALVO

Technical Sheet

Estreno en España |

Dirección
David Pantaleón

Guión
Amos Milbor, David Pantaleón

Montaje
Darío García García

Fotografía
Cris Noda

Música
Pedro Perles

Intérpretes
Alejandro Benito, Lili Quintana, José Mentado, Julio César, Lucifer Rodríguez, Lionel Cepa, Aurelio Carnero Hernández, Emilia Cazorla, Carlos Luis Monzón

Producción
Sebastián Álvarez, Jérôme Vidal