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15th DMZ Docs(2023)

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The Human Surge 3

Eduardo WILLIAMS

  • Argentina, Portugal, Brazil, Netherlands, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Sri Lanka, Peru
  • 2023
  • 121min
  • 12 +
  • DCP
  • color

Asian premiere

Synopsis

Different groups of friends wander in a rainy, windy, dark world. They spend time together, trying to get away from their depressing jobs, meandering constantly towards the mystery of new possibilities. 

Review

The Human Surge 3 is a series of Eduardo Williams, who created a sensation with The Human Surge (2016) that embodies the world¡¯s separated fragments in a global capitalistic environment through a creative narrative. The reason why the second series The Human Surge 3 instead of The Human Surge 2 remains unknown. Compared to the previous The Human Surge that traversed Argentina, Mozambique, and the Philippines to build an amorphous and nonlinear narrative, The Human Surge 3 takes place in Sri Lanka, Peru, and the Philippines, and takes more experiments by editing 360-degree camera sources with virtual reality. While the three countries in The Human Surge 3 were completely separated, the countries in The Human Surge 3 are connected in a spiral shape. Both series use the virtual network to link people who are geographically separated and visualize the traces of wandering youth by using vague and unfocused images. Williams¡¯ exploration is themed on the world¡¯s uncertainty, ambiguity, and fate of wandering people, and finds the rhythm of life in the surreal scenes of coarse particles, dim color and texture, and dynamically moving camera work. 

Director

  • Eduardo WILLIAMS

    Eduardo Williams is a filmmaker and artist whose works explore a fluid mode of observation, looking for shared relations and spontaneous adventures within physical and virtual networks. His first feature, The Human Surge, won the Pardo d¡¯oro at Filmmakers of the Present at the 69th Locarno Film Festival.

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