El Fin del mundo / The end of the world

The end of the world will start in Copapayo, El Salvador. This is our last teaser before the end of the world. Or maybe not…

El fin del mundo comenzará en Copapayo, El Salvador. Este es nuestro último avance antes del fin del mundo. O quizás no…

An “Exquisite Corpse” combines documentary, fiction and experimental film-making as it traverses the social and oneiric landscape of a region struggling between modernity and tradition. It explores ritual and performance from festivals to everyday life combining the real and the surreal, the fantastical and the banal, that which is vital and that which is purely entertainment. The reenactment of rituals within changing crowds and contexts illuminates the complex striving for understanding and for giving meaning to the small acts of everyday life. They also glimpse the need for release and catharsis. The myths, as torrid and exuberant as the geography, are often more concrete than reality and during the autopsy the corpse itself reveals something more repugnant than death, the submission of the living to it. This fantastical collective biography explores the psyche of an individual reflecting a multitude. It immerses into a dense mythological universe by narrating the life of a being in the process of unbeing, a character becoming a corpse.

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Full Credits List:

A movie by: Victor Ruano, Sarah Walko & Rossemberg Rivas

Actor – Rossemberg Rivas / Actress – Alejandra Palomo / Actress – Malado Baldwin / Actress – Sarah Zelaya / Actor – Carlos Ruano / Actress – Cristina López / Ana María Durán / Actress – Damali Abrams / Actor – Paul Fiterson / Actress – Andrea Lira

Crew
Director: Victor Ruano / Art Director – Sarah Walko / Art Director – Rossemberg Rivas / Assoc. Producer ( El Salvador) – Miguel Servellón / Assoc. Producer ( El Salvador) – Mauricio Cárcamo / Director of Photography – Sara Johansson / Director of Photography – David “La Pifia” Ulloa / Sound Design & Music mixing – Jay Wynne / Movie Score: FUGA, El Paso TX. / Music Composer FUGA – Sarah Walko – Jay Wynne / Exc. Producer – Sarah Walko / Exc. Producer – Rossemberg Rivas / Exc. Producer – Victor Ruano / Lead Editor – Elric Kane & Co-Editor – Victor Ruano / Colorist – Santasombra / 1st AD – Laura Caballero / Production Assistant – Dalia Rosa / Production Assistant – Marlon Diaz / Still Photos NYC – Claudia Sandoval / Still Photos El Salvador – Carmen Rivas / Still Photos El Salvador – Walterio Iraheta / Paper Roll Installation – Heather Willems / VFX – Paul Fiterson / Programmer & Developer – Harold Jones / Pilot – Luis Flores / Security Coordinator – Pablo Campos / VFX – Jay Wynne / Still Photos NYC & Transportation – Juan Carlos Durán / Make up Artist – Jarrett Brandon / Costume Designer – Heather Klar / Ilustrador – Santiago Basavilbaso / Ilustrador – Américo Andrade / Still Photos Brooklyn, NY – Dan Quinn / Set Design – Malado Baldwin & Sarah Walko