25/09/2007

Spanish director Tinieblas González, whose short film Por un infante difunto won the Canal + Award back at Cannes 1998, has finally set about directing his first full-length feature, ASD. The film was shot earlier this summer in Spain. Europanet's team visited the set and interviewed the film's cast and crew (see the Making Of).

"It’s a very modern film, very similar in style to mangas, comics and video games, and on the other hand I have this bad habit of always giving this acid aspect to the creature as well as to his environment. For me, it was important to recreate in the film an extrapolated and futurist world as much as it was to create its opposite, the ancient side of the underground and the Gothic or Neo-Gothic world of sewers and to show that 99% of the film was shot inside. It’s not a film where one walks about with a handheld camera making crazy movements, but more a very fast-moving adventure which nevertheless has very balanced plans, composed in a very symmetrical manner", explained González.

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A cross between a family tale and horror film, ASD was produced by Rafael Valentín-Pastrana for Alma Ata International Pictures in association with Canaria Islands-based Totem Producciones and Basque Country's Tinieblas Films.