EuskoMovie's winner presents us with a new short film: Area Marea Sarea

The winner of the first edition of EuskoMovie, an EuskoSare on-line short film contest, has just finished a recent project and would like give all our network users to see it.  "Otik Ubila" presents us with Area Marea Sare, a history with  multiple interpretations.  What is yours?

Tell us about the story behind this short
Outik Ubila: First of all, I´d like to say that our aim is to make people reflect upon a fact that surrounds us and that can take on different shapes and perspectives. This is the story of a boy that plays in the beach with a coin of little value. He falls in love with the love of his life up to the point that he gets completely absorbed by this love and ends up giving everything he has for it. However, this is just a standpoint, and not precisely the one I was thinking of when I made it. The coin may have a significance of its own since the character is carried away by this uncontrolled will of knowing and wanting more and more until he ends up suffocating himself with possessions. He can´t even part with his last bill. Of course there are many more possible readings, and what we expect is that the audience finds its own interpretation, or at least tries to reflect upon it to try to understand it.
 
How did you come up with the idea?
O.U. It all came about when I realized that I live surrounded by people like the character. I guess we all are surrounded by people like that, from a friend to even your own father. The movie was a way of giving expression to that reflection. I don´t think it´s original. I don´t pretend it to be. It´s just something that, in the first place, I wanted to do for me. Often I think the best therapy is to make shorts, write songs and writings or do whatever to clean your inner self. It may heal you sometimes.

Where did you tape it? How was the shooting?
O.U. We shot it between the actor and myself  in a beach of Barcelona that was the farthest away from that city, with a simple domestic camera. We also got help from the Lourdes Lovers Hausnarketak team, who brought us tonic beverages and food. The shooting lasted for a couple of hours and the hardest thing was to struggle against the night (very powerful, I´d say), to which we finally surrendered. I would like to highlight that we counted on meager means to produce this short, and to thank all our friends and, of course, the actor as well.

By the way, the Centro Cultural Larrotxene (Larrotxene Cultural Center) of Donostia – San Sebastián is showing  this afternoon, beginning at 7.30 pm., the films presented at the EuskoMovie Contest.