The fortuitous encounter of a sewing machine and an umbrella on a dissecting table is what, according to the most quoted of surrealist traditions, resulted in an exquisite corpse. Now, try to gather on the mobile screen a minister of Pakistan in a press conference, the legends that surround the Camino de Santiago, a pandemic with the focus on the Irati jungle and, for example, Instagram. It doesn't have to be in an operating room, just TV. A corpse comes back, perhaps not so exquisite and perhaps not just one, but several. Indeed, this is Caminantes, the horror series with which Orange launches productive originality in the company of Mediapro and that, with the help of Koldo Serra,it is there to surprise, to experiment and, why not, to bother. They are the rules of the genre, not only of surrealism.

To situate ourselves, the series that opens today tells the story of some young urbanites surprised in the middle of the forest, as perhaps the protagonists of Deliverance were long ago in the 1972 John Boorman classic . But what counts is not so much what. like how. For the first time in the history of the historiable, everything that is seen comes from a mobile (or several) that has been narratively managed by one of the characters. That is, to understand us, from the hand of the already old and classic genre of found footage , or found footage, the viewer is invited to sneak into the privacy of social networks, videos for friends or filthy selfies with filters of the protagonists of a story that lacks a third-person narrator. Everything is strictly personal and the mobile phone is not only a technical tool (as it was already in Perturbada , by Soderbergh, or in Tangerine , by Sean Parker), but also for display. Think of Blair's Witch Project , but version 2.0.

"I remember," says Serra, "that someone once recorded a press conference by a Pakistani leader in its entirety, but with the rabbit ear filter on. It seems it was an oversight, not a joke. The result was a serious act, suddenly completely decontextualized ». In the commentary, a good part of the keys to a movie (although divided into 8 episodes of 20 minutes each) designed for that: to gather strange elements and make them explode. And that's why everything mentioned in the first paragraph appears - from the pandemic strangely similar to ours today (the series was recorded last November) to the Camino de Santiago - as it would be, for example, Tik Tok. How terrifying can a corpse be with the same ears as the minister from before? We already anticipated it: a lot.

“I myself doubted that a story could be justified only with what we recorded on our phones. I'm more from Twitter. But I soon discovered that it was a generation problem. Younger people record everything . And the actors in the series, who are young, too, "recalls Serra. And so it is. All Walkers more than just seeing themselves are experienced, they suffer, from within, from the depths of the sick narcissism in which we live, both the most mature and the least. What if evil inhabited our decadent and ridiculous obsession with the latest model iPhone?

The director says that the cameras, if any, became the extensions of the actors' arms (remember, they are all subjective shots); that the sequences were resolved on a single plane since the amateur naturalness of all of us prohibits the mounting; that the stages were illuminated in 360º, and that the chief of photography controlled the parameters that he usually manages (diaphragms and everything else) through applications available to anyone . In other words, everything exactly the same as if we had found a fractured film on several mobile phones in the middle of the forest. But, obviously, everything completely different.

The rest is due to that extra exhibitionist truth about the cannibal Holocaust in times of social networks that not only make Caminantes exclusive and even pioneering, but exciting. What was said, Koldo composes the first exquisite corpse that eats likes.

According to the criteria of The Trust Project

Know more

  • movie theater
  • culture

CineSpike Lee culminates his war against the white order

CultureThe recommendations of José Ángel Mañas: the autobiography of Malcolm X, Bob Dylan, Black Mirror ...

CineViggo Mortensen, a Donostia Award for an artist without borders

See links of interest

  • Last News
  • English translator
  • TV programming
  • Quixote
  • Work calendar
  • Daily horoscope
  • Santander League Ranking
  • League calendar
  • TV Movies
  • Themes
  • Bournemouth - Tottenham Hotspur
  • Everton - Southampton
  • Eibar - Leganés
  • Mallorca - Levante
  • Albacete - Sporting de Gijón