He Hated Pigeons (2015)
- Directed by
- Ingrid Veninger
- Genre
- drama film
- Country
- Chile, Canada
- Runtime
- 1h 20m
- Rating
- 4.6 of 10 from 7 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A gay Chilean man travels across his country after his partner dies. Through flashbacks, the film shows their relationship.
meditativemelancholicslow-burntravelogueintrospectivepoignantvisually strikingquietevocative
What happens
He Hated Pigeons is a 2015 Canadian-Chilean drama film, produced, written, and directed by Ingrid Veninger. The film stars Pedro Fontaine as Elias, a gay Chilean man travelling the length of the country following the death of his partner Sebastian (played by Cristobal Tapia Montt in flashbacks). The film's music followed a unique model. Although a score was written by Ohad Benchetrit and Justin Small of the band Do Make Say Think, it was not included in the film print, and instead was performed live by various musicians at each public screening of the film. The musicians performing the score were further permitted to improvise, so that each performance of the score would be unique. The film was made after Veninger travelled to Chile to attend a retrospective screening of her work at a film festival; as she was not fluent in Spanish, Fontaine was hired as her interpreter, and Veninger decided to make a film with him after getting to know him. Dylan Macleod won the Borsos Competition award for best cinematography in a Canadian film at the 2015 Whistler Film Festival. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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