ALMATY INDIE FILM FESTIVAL
Rough Remote Rumble
Overview
A man's childhood home, a modest and ruined stonework in the heights, is about to be demolished. A stonecutter returns to his native land to give with his own hands a dignified end to the last remains of his family past. Perhaps the mere contemplation of a cloud changing its shape is enough to know if something else can still be done.
Led by a real stonecutter, "Rough Remote Rumble" are the images and the sounds of the resistance to a decline.
Director Biography — JORGE LOPEZ NAVARRETE
Born in Badalona (Barcelona), after completing a Master in Digital Cinema at the Pompeu Fabra University of Barcelona, he made the short film "Little Block of Cement with Dishevelled Hair Containing the Sea", a self-financed low budget project shown in Festivals like San Francisco, New Horizons or Montreal, and nominated for the European Film Awards 2014. "Rough Remote Rumble" is his debut feature, premiered at the Ann Arbor Film Festival.
Director Statement
Several generations ago, my father’s family were devoted to extracting and chiseling the stones in a quarry. They were stonecutters. "Ronco rumor remoto" (Rough Remote Rumble) has its roots in that heritage of stone.
The story shows a purifying process through the work with stone. The ongoing contact with such a primeval material reveals itself as a source of healing and alignment with the natural course of events.
In that fall down to what is most elementary, there is no possibility for words. Language is avoided as a more elaborate means of relating with the outside world, giving a voice to physical and fundamental gestures.
Each individual stone, humble and categorical, at once anonymous and sacred, is an insinuation of a living and multiple organism. The stone as headrest, as nourishment, as an old photograph that transports you back to the realm of childhood. The camera also as a stone, quiet, serenely present.
And underneath it all, clash two forces in perpetual motion: dissolution and preservation. Time dissolves inexorably, and we resist time. The resistance of all us produces a noise which is heard briefly, in the distance, and then disappears in the depths of time.
Credits
- Director
- JORGE LOPEZ NAVARRETE
- Writer
- JORGE LOPEZ NAVARRETE
- Producer
- JORGE LOPEZ NAVARRETE
- Producer
- DELIA GARCIA (ASSOCIATE PRODUCER)
- Key Cast
- DAVID RODRIGUEZ
- Key Cast
- AMELIA CORONADO
Specifications
- Original title
- Ronco rumor remoto
- Project type
- Feature
- Runtime
- 1 hour 14 minutes
- Completion date
- March 24, 2018
- Production budget
- 70,000 USD
- Country of origin
- Spain
- Countries of filming
- Peru
- Shooting format
- RED ONE MX
- Aspect ratio
- 16:9
- Film color
- Black & White
- First-time filmmaker
- Yes
- Student project
- No
- Digital Cinema Package
- Unavailable
Awards & Festivals
Ann Arbor Film Festival
Ann Arbor
United States
March 24, 2018
World Premiere
Leon Speakers Award for Best Sound Design
Split International Festival of New Film - Frame Extended
Split
Croatia
October 4, 2018
ZINEBI Bilbao International Documentary and Short Film Festival - First Films
Bilbao
Spain
November 11, 2018
"Cinema Vérité" Iran International Documentary Film Festival
Tehran
Iran, Islamic Republic of
December 9, 2018
Athens International Film and Video Festival
Athens
United States
April 9, 2019
T-Mobile New Horizons International Film Festival - Lost Lost Lost
Wroclaw
Poland
July 25, 2019
Quito International Film Festival
Quito
Ecuador
August 15, 2019
FIDBA Buenos Aires International Documentary Film Festival
Buenos Aires
Argentina
September 2, 2019
ADN Award for Best Latin American Film
Spanish Cultural Center in Lima - "Supra" Exhibition
Lima
Peru
September 25, 2019
Working Title Film Festival
Vicenza
Italy
October 1, 2019
Leeds International Film Festival
Leeds
United Kingdom
November 6, 2019
BLOW-UP Chicago International Arthouse Film Festival
Chicago
United States
Rizoma Festival
Madrid
Spain
Corriente - Latin American Meeting of Non-Fiction Cinema
Arequipa
Peru
November 20, 2019
Caminhos do Cinema Português - Caminhos Mundiais
Coimbra
Portugal
November 22, 2019
Cinemistica
Granada
Spain
November 28, 2019
Anthropological Cinema Award
Construir Cine
Buenos Aires
Argentina
May 6, 2020
International Golden Saffron Documentary Film Festival
Karabuk
Turkey
September 25, 2020
Inkafest Mountain Film Festival
Arequipa
Peru
November 23, 2020
Golden Tree International Documentary Film Festival
Frankfurt
Germany
Best Director Award
Vizantrop Ethnographic Film Festival
Belgrade
Serbia
October 22, 2021
Almaty Indie Film Festival
Almaty
Kazakhstan
MAAM -Muestra de Antropología Audiovisual de Madrid-
Madrid
Spain