Killing Time, Ainize Sarasola, España, 2018, 70', DCP OV with Spanish subtitles
Ainize Sarasola is an artist who has been living and working in Berlin since 2010. She has had a residency at Tabakalera, where she carried out the editing of the film we are presenting today. Ainize is also the creator of the image we used last year in our summer season of activities in the terrace (UD-HA), and she is also the author of the poster for this Fluoride cinema season. Her work mixes drawing and experimental audiovisual work, and Killing Time is her first feature film, in which she continues to delve into her obsessions and creative concerns, already familiar to us from her previous works, the short film Tarot Night (2012) and the fanzine Orly Magazine, which she has been publishing since 2011.
In a city where everything seems to be perfectly normal, a group of people who apparently have nothing in common are trapped in a bar after a mysterious incident. It could be the beginning of a spy film. It is. As a consequence of this incident, the real intentions of these characters will be slowly revealed. There is comedy and absurd humour, in a portrait of what could be a group trapped during a night in any bar in any city: a space and a situation that will reveal their miseries, desires and the dynamics of power. Can black and white be fluoride? Yes, it can.
“One of the main characters of Killing Time, Barbara Thebra, comes from an audiovisual project that I’ve been working on for years, The News. The News is composed of several short films that present the same strident and meaningless world. In Killing Time the characters are also completely changeable and disconcerting, hateful and endearing at the same time. And I mix different film genres: comedy, film noir and horror. But at the same time, it is a case of adopting a non-cinematic role and offering a portrait of everyday life with all its contradictions. Totally exaggerated, of course.”
Ainize Sarasola.
Ainize Sarasola is an artist who has been living and working in Berlin since 2010. She has had a residency at Tabakalera, where she carried out the editing of the film we are presenting today.