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

08/30/2021 – The first feature film by filmmaking duo Helena Girón and Samuel M Delgado will have its 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 one of the ship’s sails with them. Meanwhile, in the “Old World”, a woman tries to save her dying sister by taking her to a healer. These two journeys attempt to laugh at death. Both journeys are at the mercy of history.

This is the synopsis of They carry death [+see also:
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According to Girón and Delgado, “In the film we develop an idea about which Silvia Federici has already written 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, the mercenaries and the armies which would succeed in crushing the peasant uprisings that took place in Europe at the end of the 15th century and in the sixteenth century. The duo’s work explores the relationship between mythology and materialism and has already 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)