Alicante director Carlos Salado presented his film in New York. raising miceA movie that saves qinqui cinema to portray the marginal neighborhoods of the city of Alicante.
The feature film, the producer’s debut, crossed the pond to enter American universities and join the cycle. Sketches of Spain’s BellyOrganized by the Madrid film production company casilda garcia, New York University And Performance Theater in New York.
With over four million views on YouTube, raising mice “It invites reflection by making visible the problematic state of the most marginal neighborhoods and abandoning classical narrative to achieve a hyper-realistic cinematographic aesthetic,” Salado emphasizes.
The film was released in 2016, after five years of shooting. Ramon Guerrero Christ as heroes among other non-professional actors selected from the youth in the neighborhoods Colonia Requena, A Thousand Houses or Virgen del Remedio.
“As a filmmaker, it is a great honor to be able to project this film across the pond as a touchstone for Spanish neoquinqui cinema with two major industry giants. hurry, hurry by Carlos Saura and Me, Heifergoverning Jose Antonio de la Loma‘ emphasizes the filmmaker.
bad ruin And i drink
Shorts were also combed during the cycle bad ruin And i drink, two turns raise a mouse Produced by Salado himself. bad ruinA 15-minute short film combining cinema and video clip, shot in 2018, once again starring Ramón Guerrero El Cristo and joined by the ragtag Yung Beef.
i drink, Produced by GrupoIdex, Uniacords, and in collaboration with Vórtice Producciones, Wayaba and Human, the film was shot in Alicante in 2022 with a soundtrack by Uña y Carne, a group also brought together by Salado. and this is it Also in the lead role Christ And rappers El Costa and El Jincho.
“With my films I try to transcend more than just entertain. I try to penetrate the consciousness of the audience. It is amazing that universities of film, marketing and social work in Spain and now in America are using them as objects of study,” adds the director.
deprived neighborhoods
The quinqui cinema movement in Spain was born in 1977. give voice to the youth Those from underprivileged neighborhoods who commit crimes for a living fall into the vicious circle of criminal justice.
Years later, this film genre is experiencing a renaissance in the “quinqui” aesthetic and is renamed “neoquinqui”. economic and sexual instabilityit’s about drugs in modern-day Spain.