EXCLUSIVE: Poster for the title of the Venice International Film Critics’ Week, They Carry Death

08/30/2021 – The first feature film by filmmaker duo Helena Girón and Samuel M Delgado will be presented as a world premiere in the parallel section of the Italian festival

1492. Among the crew commanded by Christopher Columbus travel three men who should have been dead by now. They managed to avoid their sad fate by participating in this uncertain journey. When they reach the Canary Islands, they flee, taking with them one of the sails of the ship. Meanwhile, in the “Old World”, a woman tries to save her dying sister by bringing her to a healer. These two trips try to laugh at death. Both trips are at the mercy of history.

This is the summary of They carry death [+see also:
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According to Girón and Delgado, “In the film we develop an idea that Silvia Federici already wrote about in her essay Caliban and the witch, in which she evoked the fact that the wealth obtained during colonization made it possible to finance the entire repressive apparatus of the Inquisition, and the mercenaries and armies which would succeed in eradicating the peasant uprisings that occurred in Europe at the end of the 15th century and in the 16th century. The duo’s work investigates the relationship between mythology and materialism and has already been screened at many renowned international film festivals, including Locarno and Toronto.

The film is a co-production between Filmika Galaika (Endless night [+see also:
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Check out our exclusive poster below, designed by Mario River:

(Translated from Spanish)