{"id":15837,"date":"2023-09-01T20:00:35","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T00:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=15837"},"modified":"2023-09-01T14:57:11","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T18:57:11","slug":"fausto-2018-andrea-bussmann","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/15837","title":{"rendered":"Fausto (2018, Andrea Bussmann)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s time once again for <strong>Locorazo<\/strong>, a home viewing series of films that played the Locarno Festival five years ago.  This one played in the &#8220;Filmmakers of the Present&#8221; section for first and second features &#8211; in this case it&#8217;s her first solo feature, the previous two being collaborations with her husband Nicolas Pereda (<em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/14449\">Fauna<\/a><\/em>), who only assists on this one (plus thanks in the credits to Joshua Bonnetta and Matias Pineiro).<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image23\/fausto2.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Stories about lingering ghosts and missing shadows, a witch, psychic animals and astronomical events, told at night, often via narrator.  &#8220;We live in a conscious universe, we just do not realize it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Dudes hanging out smoking, usually at night.  The subjects of the stories are sometimes seen at an indifferent distance from the camera.  A few unique visual moments: a text list of animals that can see better at night, a beach shot with an absurdly low horizon line.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image23\/fausto1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>The director <a href=\"https:\/\/mubi.com\/notebook\/posts\/looking-through-the-shadows-andrea-bussmann-discusses-fausto\">in Mubi<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The concept of the search and searching was a central idea in the film and in the Faust myth.  Much of the time we learn the characters are searching for a shadow, a man, et cetera.  The theme of the search was something important for me to use, but also important to continue without a resolution.  Faust, after all, wants nothing more than to unlock the keys to the universe and himself\u2014something  that, like Faust, we are far from doing.   I&#8217;m never looking for a particular thing, but I&#8217;m always in the process of searching and exploring.  I&#8217;m consumed by questions, which through the seeking of answer continually opens up new questions.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s time once again for Locorazo, a home viewing series of films that played the Locarno Festival five years ago. This one played in the &#8220;Filmmakers of the Present&#8221; section for first and second features &#8211; in this case it&#8217;s her first solo feature, the previous two being collaborations with her husband Nicolas Pereda (Fauna), [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1049,3149,3150,110,2284,137],"class_list":["post-15837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2010s","tag-andrea-bussmann","tag-faust","tag-ghosts","tag-lnkarno","tag-mexico"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15837"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15869,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15837\/revisions\/15869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}