BARRIA — Postcards From Last Summer

Eiwaz

Postcards From Last Summer

3' 12''/Color, B&W/Digital/USA/2021

16min/Color, B&W/Digital & 16mm/USA/2019

Synopsis:

Eiwaz is an experimental film essay built upon Maya Deren's short film Meditation On Violence from 1948 intertwined with natural elements imagery from old science reels. Violence as energy transmutation, violence as the backbone of creation. Eiwaz is an ancient rune that symbolizes the encounter of life and death, creation and destruction, necessary changes as part of a never-ending cycle. Body as a representation of physical forces, body controlled by external forces, body as an enclosed space for vital energy.

Logline:

Two twenty-something girls face a daydreaming self-discovery journey between carefree days and the sorrow of a world of misconceptions in a summer go-away trip.

Synopsis:

Emma and Lola are in their early twenties and already know
one or two things about broken hearts and unbearable expectations. During a summer holiday, what it's a simple
escape to the tropical wilderness of the Everglades to forgive
and forget, turn into a self-discovery journey, fulfilled with carefree fantasies, childish games, and a quirky rebellion
against roles and rules.

Postcards From Last Summer is a hypertextual coming-of-age film essay, an evocative snapshot created upon reflexive notes, off-screen narration, and pop-ish tableaux vivants.

The film was independently produced, shot on 16mm, on location in the Everglades National Park and Miami Beach.

The Song:

The original song was composed and performed by Venezuelan guitarist and composer Juan Ernesto Velásquez. His music has roots in Latin America yet contains a blend of Spanish and Gipsy guitars, Popular Music, Afro-Caribbean rhythms, Jazz, and World Music influences, resulting in experimental instrumental compositions.

Official Song available on
Spotify Bandcamp

Film Score:

The original film score was created by Berlin-based, Austrian composer, songwriter, and performer Ella Zwietnig –rep by Manners McDade and a member of the Alliance for Women Film Composers– and her partner Florian Zwietnig, a prolific composer, sound designer, producer, and past member of the German band Mediengruppe Telekommander.

Inspired by a colorful spectrum of influences varying from late '70s Suicide, Kraut Rock, Gabriel Yared, and Eric Serra, Ella and Florian created dreamy, ethereal, haunting, and noisy soundscapes with melodic nuances to enhance the evocative spirit of the film blending art-pop sensibilities and contemporary electronic music through the use of processed vocal, analog and electronic instruments, prepared piano, and the Oberheim Matrix 1000, mastered to analog tape.

Official Soundtrack available on
Spotify iTunes Bandcamp

Credits:

Concept, Montage by Camilo B. Royer
Music by Juan Ernesto Velásquez
Mixed & Mastered by Pedro Chacón Requena
Research & Production by Camilo B. Royer

Credits:

Written by Adriana Lodolo and Camilo Barria
Starring Isadora Leiva and Julia Steiner
Narrated by Ella Zwietnig
Produced and Directed by Camilo Barria
Original Score by Ella Zwietnig
Additional Music by Florian Zwietnig
Audio Engineering, Mix, and Sound Design:
Florian Zwietnig at Oogum Boogum Studio
Berlin, Germany & Ochsendorf, Austria
Images, Editing: Camilo Barria
Assistant Director: Adriana Lodolo
Camera Assistant: Francisco Garcia
Make-Up, Stylist: Nayra Figueroa
Production Design: Barria, Lodolo
Shot on Kodak Film 16mm
Camera: Krasnogorsk-3
Processing, Scanning: Colorlab, MD, USA
Color Consultant: Abel Rodriguez Nieto
Casting, Locations: Camilo Barria
Production: Blackanimals
Shot on location in Everglades National Park
and Miami Beach, Florida, USA