A hybrid project between fiction film and music video creates a chaotic universe in response to our postmodern times. Three different intertwined stories reflect the drama of consumerism, escapism, love, loneliness, and suicide.
Written and directed by David Useche
Produced by Chiara Useche
Cinematography Jerónimo Sarmiento
Production Design Dayana Bohórquez
Original Music by David Useche
SAFO
febrero 9, 2020
Dance film by David Useche
Run time: 7 min.
Year: 2014
Based on fragments of the texts by Archaic Greek poet Safo de Mitilene, “Safo, The Spring Messenger” is a dance-video piece, which in an expressive and poetic way exposes an instant of Mitilene’s life, a contemporary dancer who is at the same time desired and envied by the gods due to her mortal condition. In this film symbolism and sensitivity predominate through images that, beyond attempting to tell a story, allow the spectator to adopt a contemplative and sensitive attitude towards what it’s being observed: Something that perhaps is of vital relevance in our agitated contemporary world.
