Documentaries
Brimstone & Glory
Viktor Jakovleski
USA, Mexico 2017
67 min
V'17
BRIMSTONE & GLORY is a poetical documentary about a small Mexican city devoted to a week-long fireworks festival. “Burning Man has nothing on tultepec’s charging toritos and explod-ing castillos. Mexico’s weeklong national pyrotechnic Festival is sheerunbridled madness. Scars that tourists take away from fireworks-exploding bulls and towering infernos are earned with pleasure, apparently, as this dynamic documentary keeps explanation to a minimum while maximizing the experiential through GoPro camera POVs and gorgeous abstractions. Filmmaker Jakovleski has created a visually rapturous, immersive, sensory experience of this extraordinary event, capturing the danger and mayhem in all its glory.” (Edward Havens)
Credits
- Tobias von den Borne
- Damian Volpe
- MPSE
- Affonso Goncalves
- Dan Romer
- Benh Zeitlin
- Juan Alberto «chincolas» Cervantes Aduna
- Esau Santiago Sánchez Velázquez
- Amauri Sanabria Urbán
- Inocenta Gomez Santos
- Roberto Sánchez Olvera
- Claudia Velázquez Gomez
The Department of Motion Pictures, Cinereach, Court 13 Pictures
Mongrel International
DCP
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