Rey
Niles Atallah / CL, FR, NL, DE, 2017 / 91 min.
Rey was the winner of this year’s IFFR Special Jury Award for Artistic Achievement in the Tiger Competition. It’s 1860 and French lawyer and adventurer Orélie-Antoine de Tounens has dreams of becoming King of Patagonia. He travels to a remote area in the south of Chile where he establishes his kingdom with the aid of the local Mapuche tribe, but then starts descending into madness.
This cinematic artwork by Niles Atallah is not only a visionary and psychedelic film but also a journey through Chilean history, recollections and colonialism. Rey is a stylized mix of decayed footage, stop-motion, masks, puppets and archival material from Eye”s collection. Atallah already shot parts of his film in 2011, then buried the 35mm, 16mm and super8 films in his back garden to artificially age them.
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Director
Niles Atallah
Production year
2017
Country
CL, FR, NL, DE
Original title
Rey
Length
91 min.
Language
French, Spanish
Subtitles
ENG
Format
DCP
Part of
Previously Unreleased
Screened at prominent national and international festivals, yet never released in Dutch cinemas. Quite unjustly so, Eye Filmmuseum thinks, and so it has once again brought an exceptional selection of films from international festivals to the Netherlands.
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