The latent voice
(first movement)
An actress, Raquel Ferri, gives birth. And an actress, Raquel Ferri, plays the night and day during which she gave birth.
Dreams can also be a matter of life or death. In this dream, the actress multiplies into different women, and prepares to give birth. And in some moment (from the past or the future) he relives the desires, the fears, the hopes, the friction of the bodies in transformation.
At the decisive moment of childbirth, real life and acting embrace and look into each other's eyes, just as it always does in our lives.
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With a deliberately dreamy tone, The latent voice explores the desires, fears and hopes of a woman at such a decisive moment in her life as childbirth.
Artistic team
Direction and assembly
Isaki Lacuesta
Performers
Raquel Ferri, Silvia Perez Cruz, Albert Ubach Font, Martí Ferri Ubach and Luna Lacuesta
photography
Adriana Villa Guevara
Camera Assistant
Pau Mira
Executive production
Isa Field
Changing room
Lorena Panea
laboratory
Cinelabs
Cinelabs coordination
Cornelia Pope
Kodak film
Alejandro Paino
Team Sílvia Pérez Cruz
Alex Sanchez and Albert Smiles
Music
The Womb (Silvia Perez Cruz / Sylvia Plath)
The latent voice
(first movement)
An actress, Raquel Ferri, gives birth. And an actress, Raquel Ferri, plays the night and day during which she gave birth.
Dreams can also be a matter of life or death. In this dream, the actress multiplies into different women, and prepares to give birth. And in some moment (from the past or the future) he relives the desires, the fears, the hopes, the friction of the bodies in transformation.
At the decisive moment of childbirth, real life and acting embrace and look into each other's eyes, just as it always does in our lives.
Access by professionals
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