Official Competition 2019

Sea of Lost Time

Gurvinder Singh I 2018 I 45'

SYNOPSIS

Sea of Lost Time is an allegory set in an undefined time and space, evoking the magic realism of Gabriel García Márquez, inspired as it is by his short fiction characters. A soldier comes back from the dead to a seaside village. He reminisces his past, the time he had lost while he was away, which is like a sea between the past and the dysfunctional present.

BIOGRAPHY

Gurvinder Singh

GURVINDER SINGH (India, 1973) studied at the International Film and Television School of India (EICTV), Pune, graduating in 2001. He made his fiction debut with Alms for a Blind Horse, which won an award at the Venice Film Festival in 2011. He then directed The Fourth Direction, winner of the Un Certain Regard Award at the Cannes Film Festival in 2015. The film participated in the Official Selection of FILMADRID in 2016.

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Critical text

"The newest Gurvinder Singh’s film offers not only a few incentives to include it in a hypothetic catalog which would collect the best ‘unfinished’ films of the history if we understand this to mean every cinematographic product which final or available result, for whatever reason, does not match with the prefigured or initial one. The Indian director, assisted by a team of students from the Film and Television Institute of India in Pune, was shooting a free version of the homonymous story by Gabriel García Marquez when the local authorities paralyzed the filming. What is now being projected is the assembly of the parts that have been preserved from this ruined film. The circumstance, however, does not impede achieving the masterpiece condition. With a staging as sober as powerful, the moving frankness of the simple stories and their lyrical narration of the pain and regeneration of the victims, Sea of Lost Time shows that an incomplete film can also be a perfect film. RAMÓN DEL BUEY"

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