Salto al vacio
Daniel Calparaso
Alex is a young girl in spanish town. Her head is shaved, with VOID tatooed on it. Alex feeds her family with all sorts of trafficking which she carried out of gang. She is a dealer. In weapon, drugs, but above all sentiments. Insofar as dealing means seducing, getting a few promise of love in the form of bank notes. And Alex suffers, suffers from not having a head empty as her head makes out. She suffers from not being able to love without being destroyed. She suffered from having acquired a taste for her loss, without being sure of havingmourned her happiness. On the screens recently, violence has been combined with irony to give us baroque films. The violence of "Salto al vacio" is disturbing in another way. It is the bile of a life.
With : Najwa Nimry, Roberto Chalu, Ion Gabella, Alfredo Villa, Karra Elejalde, Saturnino Garcia, Karla Calparsoro, Kandido Uranga
Screenplay : Daniel Calparsoro
Image : Kiko de la rica
Sound : Miguel Rejas
Editing : Pite Pinas
Screenplay : Daniel Calparsoro
Image : Kiko de la rica
Sound : Miguel Rejas
Editing : Pite Pinas
Production : Orense 32, 10-4, D-28020 Madrid.TEL : (34-1) 556 23 07. FAX : (34-1) 556 80 97.
Daniel Calparsoro was born in Spain in 1968. In 1988, he took up art studies in New York, and then, the following year, started in film department of the Tisch Film School of the Arts of the University of New-York. In 1992, he made "W.C.", a short which won the Golden Award at the 1993 Houston Festival and the Special Jury Prize at the Hannover Festival in 1994. He finished his studies in 1993 and returned to Spain where he makes pop videos. He has written and directed "Salto al vacio", which is his first feature.