Un lloc on Caure mort (A Place to Fall Dead) by MA Blanca i Raúl Cuevas.

Screening of the film " A Place On Drop Dead " by MA White and Raul Cuevas, and concert by Candide Coll (protagonist of the film and singer ' Autodestrucció).


Un lloc on Caure mort (A Place to Fall Dead) by M.A. Blanca and Raúl Cuevas. 2014, 65 '
Càndid is a singer in a band from Hostalric called Autodestrucció. They are like NOFX lost in Montseny mountain with a sack of amphetamines. Càndid is also a Farrero with all the stops pulled, a wicked outburst, a kind of sleepwalking habit which verges on the criminal and a lord that sings in a wheelchair, with a local police cap jammed onto his cranium. But Un lloc on Caure mort is not a simple freak show; it is not a voyeuristic work that spins around the narcotic yearnings of a full-throttle thirty-year-old. Càndid has depth. Càndid tricks the speaker from the safety of his half-chicken and numerous gin-and-tonics and roaring hits like Rastres de farlopa and A la puta merda tot, and suddenly launches into a meditation on his life crisis (“som uns putos traïdors a nosaltres mateixos” [we’re freaking traitors of ourselves]) and belligerence (“un dia et despertes i ets un d'ells” [one day you wake up and you’re one of them]) and honesty (“no puc ser tan honest” [I can’t be so honest]) and even tradition (“potser les tradicions no estan tan equivocades” [maybe the traditions are not so wrong]). Which is the real Càndid? The aberrant singer or the father of his child and the son of his father? This film shows how the dichotomy between public and private, punk and family, doubts and certainties, cocaine and booze, traditions and ruptures, all have their place.
 

About the directors

Raúl Cuevas Mambrilla (L'Hospitalet, 1978). He holds a Bachelor’s in Audiovisual Communication and a Master’s in Creative Documentary Filmmaking from Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona). To date he has directed seven documentaries and a host of video clips for bands like Sanjosex, Mazoni and Espaldamaceta. His first feature-length film is the documentary “From Texas to Arbúcies” (2010), produced by Nanouk Films and La Gran Evasió. He has also worked as a cameraman and editor alongside directors like Albert Solé, Ricardo Íscar and Mercedes Álvarez.

Miguel Ángel Blanca Pachón graduated from the Cinema and Audiovisual School of Catalonia (ESCAC) with a specialisation in scriptwriting in 2003, with his final project being a short film that he wrote and directed himself. In Las chicas solas tocan el violín (Girls Play the Violin Alone), he revealed his fondness of surrealistic stories of misguided love.
 
His career as a scriptwriter for short films continued with Temporada 92-93 (EscándaloFilms, 2004), Pare Model (Jet-Films, 2008), Cullerada (BoogalooFilms, 2009) and Amistat (BoogalooFilms, 2010), all directed by Alejandro Marzoa.
 
In feature-length films, he wrote the titles Estàs convidat a la festa de Wendy (Escándalo Films, 2007), L'any del cometa (JetFilms, 2010) and Som Gent Honrada (Vaca Films and El Terrat 2012).
 
After 2009 as the Head of Development at BoogalooFilms, he has spearheaded the Yourlostmemories.com transmedia project, a web portal like an office of lost Super 8 and 8-mm homemade films with the goal of returning them to their original owners. In 2011, within the same transmedia project, he wrote and co-directed the film YourLostMemories with Alejandro Marzoa.

• OrganitzaHAMACA, media & video art distribution from Spain
• Col·laboraArts Santa Mònica - Departament de Cultura