WUM EU: Juan Carlos Zaldívar's "Shift" at Cannes Film Festival 2013

Niederlauterbach.- From Tuesday May 21st to Thursday May 23rd, 2013 at 6:30PM, the film by Cuban-born Miami Beach-based filmmaker and video artist, Juan Carlos Zaldívar entitled "Shift" will be screened at the auditorium of the EDEN Hotel as part of the Video Art Show,Festival de Cannes, 2013.

At the Cannes Court Metrage Section, the 5-minute stop-motion film produced by Zaldívar's production company Phonograph Films LLC., which was released last September, is made of 9,000 photos shot over a period of one year.

Shift is also the winner of the MOCA Optic Nerve 14 Film Festival and is directed, interpreted and animated by Zaldívar with music by Andy Brick.

It follows the life of a character born from a tree and stitches a female skin out of leaves and whose face is stolen by a fierce wild dog accompanied by six faceless dogs leaving the protagonist with a loss of face which is in no means a sense for humiliation. 

The wondering character reflects its environment looking through a hollow mirror-like face searching for a home and whose vision returns in a surprising turn of events.

Fantastically exploring the relationship between actuality and reality, Zaldívar engages in a dialogue that transcends physicality and philosophy revealing issues of identity and transculturalism. 

His interest in the transformation of the physical form and its perceptions by the audience trigger larger questions about our human nature.