Spectrum Shorts screening - review - EL VALLE INTERIOR by Alejandro Telemaco Tarraf
Argentinian short that stretches the boundaries of documentary with narrative filmmaking to the point that it’s hard to distinguish where line lays. But this is exactly what director Alejandro Telemaco Tarraf sets out to do in portraying the life of a man who owns a boat, lives in the jungle and lives a simple life of alienation from modern society.
The cinematography depicts the beauty of the jungle in a mystifying way, and reveals hidden dangers and the obvious beauty of the environment. All the while, the tastefully and carefully measured pace creates the type of slow cinema that draws you in instinctively in a hypnotic sense.
El Valle Interior is a film about inner peace but perhaps more compellingly takes a look at a true alternative lifestyle in an always more technologically baffled world.
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