World premiere
Me & the Beasts
After begrudgingly separating from his band due to personal and political internal tensions, a Venezuelan musician tries to start his solo project from scratch, while balancing his daily life as a third-world country millennial, the emotional turmoil of accepting a new creative phase, and the symptoms of a nation-wide crisis that is beyond his sphere of control.
Debutant Nico Manzano (who is also the DOP), with a great experience in music videos, defines with a very personal touch the musical creative process and how an artist could focus on his own job (world).
Accompanying the young musician, the director creates a visually stunning and enigmatically fascinating tale that could work both as a diagnosis for contemporary loneliness of the current generation or a socio-political parable about the extreme situation in the country. An unpredictable ride, atmospheric and with a freestyle of tempos, which will bring the audience to meet new, unexpected, friends.
Javier Garcia Puerto
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Nico Manzano (snd 1986)
Yo y Las Bestias (Me & the Beasts, 2021)