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A GENERAL DISAPPOINTMENT

Serge Garcia
SUA, 2022
24 min

In three segments of everyday life filled with monotonous activities, Serge Garcia articulates a meditation on the storms hidden behind the daily silence, the routine that overwhelms us from all sides.

In general, the everyday is nothing more than a sum of almost machine-like gestures that have no hidden face for us. In general, we are not used to questioning these gestures, nor the framework in which they take place in all their mechanicity. In general, things have their place in the world. Serge Garcia, even from the captivity of the everyday, dares a gentle protest movement against the blaze of habit: the director puts together fragments of text and moments of his own daily solitude, creating a picture of daily anguish, of the disappointment about spinning in routine like in the tub of a washing machine. (Andreea Chiper, BIEFF 2022)

Date and location

28th of September, 21:00, Cinemateca Eforie

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Serge Garcia

Serge Garcia is a filmmaker with a penchant for aimlessly wandering. Often engaging with non-traditional forms of narrative, his works deal with social and cultural contexts of our historical present. His filmography includes: Cycle One (2021), Grand Central Hotel (2021), Noncompliant (2019).

  • Technical sheet
  • Production and distribution
  • WRITER: Serge Garcia
  • CINEMATOGRAPHY: Simon Köcher
  • COLOURIST: Max Strömberg
  • SOUND MIX: Dominique Lalonde 
  • SOUND MASTERING: Glenn Astro
  • MUSIC: Laurene LaVallis
  • LAB/TELECINE: Andec Berlin 
  • PRODUCȚIE: Trouble Pictures

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