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Yo  /  Wadley

Yo
June 17, 2016 - 7:30 pm
Billy Wilder Theater
In-person: 
Matías Meyer.

West Coast Premiere!

Yo  (2015)

Mexico/Switzerland/Canada/Dominican Republic/Netherlands

Winner of the jury award for Best Mexican Feature at the 2015 Morelia International Film Festival, Yo presents a young man of indeterminate age and apparent mental incapacity, living with his mother in a seemingly suspended childhood.  A chance meeting with a young girl sets in motion a series of encounters that will spur his transformation to adulthood, for better or worse.  Infused with an equal sense of dread and wonder, the film equivocally frames the epic human journey of emotional maturation.

DCP, color, in Spanish with English subtitles, 80 min.  Producer: Matías Meyer, Julio Bárcenas.  Director: Matías Meyer.  Based on the story Yo by J.M.G. Le Clezio.  Screenwriter: Alexandre Auger, Matías Meyer.  Cinematographer: Gerardo Barroso Alcalá.  Editor: León Felipe González.  Composer: Galo Durán.  Cast: Raúl Silva Gómez, Elizabeth Mendoza, Isis Vanessa Cortés, Ignacio Rojas Nieto, Minerva Ivonne Morales.

Wadley  (Mexico, 2008)


In filmmaker Matías Meyer’s deceptively simple first feature, a young backpacker trudges into the wilderness, the camera attentively registering incidentals of atmosphere, and behavior, as duration becomes increasingly relative.  The mission, to take some peyote, leads to another question: will the adventurer now find his way home?  The film’s hypnotic spell is perfectly summed up by the filmmaker: “when you go out and observe, magical things happen.”

35mm, color, in Spanish with English subtitles, 58 min.  Producer: Matías Meyer.  Director: Matías Meyer.  Screenwriter: Matías Meyer.  Cinematographer: Gerardo Barroso Alcalá.  Editor: Matías Meyer.  Composer: Galo Durán.  Cast: Leonardo Ortizgris.

Preceded by:

The Field of Possible  (Mexico/Canada, 2014)

Le champ des possibles

An “impossible day” spent in a silent and unimpressive corner of Montreal ushers in dramatic and spellbinding changes, in this meditative, experimental short.

DCP, color, in Spanish with English subtitles, 10 min.  Producer: Matías Meyer.  Director: Matías Meyer.  Cinematographer: Glauco Bermúdez.  Editor: Matías Meyer.  Composer: Galo Durán.

Part of: 
Journeys Within and Without: Matías Meyer