The Human Surge

The Human Surge (2017)

El auge del humano

Buenos Aires. Exe, 25 years old, has just lost his job and is not looking for another one. His neighbors and friends seem as odd to him as they always do. Online, he meets Alf, a boy from Mozambique who is also bored with his job and who is about to follow Archie, another boy who has run away into the jungle. Through the dense vegetation of the forest, Archie tracks ants back to their nest. One of them wanders off course and comes across Canh, a Filipino, sitting on top of a giant heap of earth and who is about to go back to his strange, beautiful home town, where he too has a miserable job.

Date of release
2017-03-03
TMDB
5.5 / 10 (14)
Runtime
1h 36m
Genres
Drama
Director
Eduardo Williams
Collection
Colección: El Auge del Humano

Casting

Interesting facts

The Human Surge is a 2016 experimental film directed, written, shot and edited by the Argentine director Eduardo Williams. It was Williams' debut feature film, after having made a number of short features. The Human Surge is divided into three separate narrative and geographical segments: the first in Buenos Aires, the second in Maputo, and the third in Bohol.

Production

Williams had made six short films before his feature debut The Human Surge, in which he had experimented with different video formats and textures. In the short films Pude ver un Puma (eng. Could See a Puma, 2011) and Tôi quên rôi! (eng.

For The Human Surge, Williams used three different video formats, one for each segment: the Argentine segment was shot on 16 mm film, the Mozambique part with a Blackmagic pocket camera—subsequently recaptured in Super 16 from a computer monitor, and the final Philippine sequence on a digital RED camera.

Williams had regularly employed a domestic Argentine setting in his first short films. However, in the latest shorts—That I'm Falling? (2013) and I forgot! (2014)—he opted for different locales, Sierra Leone and Vietnam, respectively. Having rarely traveled abroad as a young man, Williams was struck by the beauty of foreign languages, and wanted to use them in a filmic context.

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