HNIFF 2023 · Winner, Best Student Film
Voyager
Directed by Pablo Pagán · Spain · 20 min · short · narrative
Camila (24) works as a party truck driver. Locked in a draining routine, she has developed a strange obsession with the clientele of the business, looking at them as a reflection of her inability to integrate into society. One night, cleaning one of the trucks, she discovers a bottle containing some mysterious pills, which after taking them, allow her to abandon her body, and explore the world outside the boundaries of her physical self, in a sort of astral journey. With the help of this newly acquired power, Camila will begin to explore the world beyond the cab of her truck.
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From the director
Voyager is proposed as a contemporary exploration of the neo-noir genre, building on the foundations of its precursors. The short film delves into a fantastic theme, which allows us to treat classic noir elements, such as ambivalent mysteries, immoral characters, and a dishonest world that the protagonist must maneuver. However, in essence, it's a story of a character who, devoid of power throughout his life, regains control of it.
The story explores the search for truth driven by the voyeuristic apparatus that represents the ability to travel the world without a physical form; But in line with the neo-noir story of authors such as Park Chan-wook, Bong Joon-ho or David Fincher, this search for the truth will end up leading our protagonist towards a descent into the immorality of the human being.
The project was born from our collective love for genre cinema, and the desire to make a hybrid between the neo-noir thriller and the fantastic genre, set in a nearby environment exploring Barcelona from the gloomy and dark tone that characterizes the noir genre.
