With Gabriel Abrantes’s prodigious Rotterdam 2010 entry Visionary Iraq we asked whether things could get any more wrong? The good news is that they do. Playing the ludicrously self-confident protagonists of their film, Abrantes & Schmidt head for the jungle. It’s a work of great imagination, biting chunks from the rule-book, pitching cliché against cliché and with an opening that couples the sublime Iguazu Falls with the husky wisdom of Nina Simone. Mesmerising!
- Directors
- Gabriel Abrantes, Daniel Schmidt
- Country of production
- Portugal
- Year
- 2010
- Festival Edition
- IFFR 2011
- Length
- 23'
- Medium
- 35mm
- Languages
- English, Portuguese, Spanish, French
- Producers
- Gabriel Abrantes, Natxo Checa, João Trabulo
- Production Companies
- A Mutual Respect Productions, Periferia Filmes
- Sales
- A Mutual Respect Productions
- Screenplay
- Gabriel Abrantes, Daniel Schmidt
- Cinematography
- Natxo Checa
- Editor
- Gabriel Abrantes, Daniel Schmidt
- Production Design
- Gabriel Abrantes, Natxo Checa
- Sound Design
- Daniel Schmidt
- Cast
- Gabriel Abrantes, Daniel Schmidt
- Website
- http://www.mutualrespectproductions.blogspot.com