Kurzfilm
HADO
Javi, ein untreuer und mächtiger Mann, fährt nachts eine schlecht beleuchtete, wenig befahrene Straße entlang. Er kehrt von einer angeblichen Geschäftsreise nach Hause zurück. Ein einziger Fehler wird in einem Augenblick Javis Leben für immer verändern.
Rubi Rock
Rubi Rock (Ruben Naveros Saldaña, 08-06-1985, Vitoria-Gasteiz) began his career in audiovisual arts as a self-taught artist, making several music videos and some amateur short films. Since he was little, his passion for cinema led him to spend hours and hours in the video store in front of the horror and suspense section, discovering titles like “Halloween”, “A Nightmare on Elm Street” and “The Exorcist”. Also around that time, his interest in collecting began, buying VHSs whenever he could and recording and storing all the movies that were broadcast on television. Coming across titles like “Citizen X”, “The Silence Of The Lambs” and “Seven”, makes Rubi not only obsessed with suspense films but also emulate classic directors such as Hitchcock, Polanski and De Palma. With the arrival of digital, the three aforementioned, along with David Fincher, become the leading directors of his collection. Constantly reviewing not only their filmography, but also all the extras from the DVDs and BluRays, he finds an alternative film school accessible for him. Rubi feels comfortable in the genre and tries to move between horror and suspense in all his projects whenever he can. “HADO”, his first professional short film, exemplifies this. A dark and suffocating thriller, with an overwhelming atmosphere, where the director shows his tastes and references and where terror is presented as not only something spiritual, philosophical and psychological, but also something physical and real.
About HADO
“HADO” talks about destiny and whether it is determined by some kind of supernatural all powerful force, or if, on the contrary, we build it, step by step, with our actions and decisions. The objective is that, after watching the film, the audience, in addition to having had a good time (or bad time, depending on how you look at it), can reflect, even minimally, on it. The characters in HADO depart from the traditional and hegemonic family model. I consider it important to represent other realities in cinema, specifically in horror and thriller cinema, showing the diversity that exists in society and ensuring that everyone can see themselves reflected in different characters. Fortunately, this idea is something that has been strengthened, extended and normalized in recent years. But even as a creator, year after year, creation after creation, I feel that the internalized contamination of stereotypes has been making an indent in my imagination. At an early stage in the development of ideas, it is still difficult for me to visualize certain characters in certain roles. This is something I work on, and it is a barrier that I want to break down, first in myself, then in my projects and, consequently, in the rest of the people who see my work. For me, it was critical from its conception that the short be heartbreaking. That the whole setting, the photography, the music and the representation of violence, provoke a disheartening feeling in the audience during and after viewing it, avoiding any feeling of relief. I wanted to punish the protagonist’s bad actions and decisions harshly and without any mercy. I wanted the apparent security in which he lived to vanish in a matter of seconds, turning him into an absurd and pathetic character capable of doing anything to save himself, demonstrating his lack of empathy and responsibility, and thus being able to continue with the farce that is his life.”
Cast & Crew
Rubi Rock: Director, Writer
Paul Urkijo Alijo: Producer
(Errementari: El herrero y el diablo, Irati, Dar-Dar)
Pako Ruiz: Producer
María Gómez: Producer
Miguel Garcés: Key Cast „Javi“
Haizea Carneros: Key Cast „Karma“
Gonzalo Vega: Key Cast „Mario“
