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International Title: Matador
Director: Maurizio Von Trapp
Running time: 05:49
Country of production: United Kingdom
Year of production: 2011
Production: Lucia Munoz Iglesias, Maurizio Von Trapp
Distribution: Maurizio Von Trapp

Original title: Matador
International Title: Matador
Country of production: United Kingdom
Type: Shortfilm
Category: Fiction
Genre: Eroticism, Fantasy, Art/Installation
Subject matter: Death, Eroticism, Culture, Dream, Circus
Colour: Color

 

Matador takes an extreme and experimental approach to the subject of cinematic voyeurism, extending it to a wider context. The film drives a parallel between pornography and bullfighting in a disjointed narrative reminiscent of dreams. As we watch a bullfighter seductively working the stage in a mixture of dance and sport, we are brought to a parallel underground world, where four women watch a couple having sex. The sense of ceremony is widespread, and a nod to humanity's need to assert themselves as intelligent, thinking things. The film, however, searches for something deeper and more primitive, something shared between all of us: our animalistic instincts. These women feel compelled to watch the couple having sex, despite their exaggerated demeanour. Humans are, after all, an integrant part of the animal kingdom.


Director Maurizio Von Trapp
Producer Lucia Munoz Iglesias , Maurizio Von Trapp
Distribution Maurizio Von Trapp
Script Maurizio Von Trapp
Director of Photography Victoria Lenz Schneider-Cesar , Alfred Thirolle
Editor Chiaki Suzuki
Sound Vladas Litvinas
Music Composer Dimitris Chatzigiannakis
Costume Designer Margherita Zanobetti
Art Director Margherita Zanobetti

Festivals

Directors Lounge Berlin (Germany) 2012-02
Ljubljana International Short Film Festival Ljubljana (Slovenia) 2012-03
Screentest - National Student Film Festival London (United Kingdom) 2012-03 Audience Award Winner
KAN Film Festival Wroclaw (Poland) 2012-04 In Competition