HOT – NEVER HERE, NEVER NOW es un cortometraje experimental que se desarrolla en varios parajes naturales ubicados en los alrededores de Berlin. Allí, Chris y Lucca, una pareja que se adora, atraviesan juntos fragmentos de un día a partir de conversaciones parciales y recuerdos fallidos, invitando a vivir la memoria como un objeto en constante recomposición.

La película no sigue una cronología tradicional, el tiempo se suspende y cada instante funciona como un destello aislado. Cada gesto y cada imagen parecen existir en un equilibrio precario entre lo vivido y lo recordado. El lenguaje que sostiene la acción, aunque fragmentado y denso, ofrece retazos de diálogos que marcan el ritmo de la experiencia: un presente reconstruido como un territorio en suspensión.

Cada instante es un deslumbramiento de luz que atraviesa la conciencia de los protagonistas como un vistazo de belleza dentro de una vida que se recompone y, mientras lo hace, se destruye.

HOT – Never Here, Never Now es un ejercicio perceptivo donde luz, sonido, cuerpo y memoria convergen en un paisaje suspendido donde la memoria se crea y se deforma al mismo tiempo cuestionando la forma en que recordamos, sentimos y vivimos el presente.

HOT – NEVER HERE, NEVER NOW is an experimental short film set in various natural locations on the outskirts of Berlin. There, Chris and Lucca, a couple who adore each other, relive fragments of a day through partial conversations and failed memories, inviting us to experience memory as an object in constant recomposition.

The film does not follow a traditional chronology; time is suspended and each moment functions as an isolated flash. Every gesture and every image seems to exist in a precarious balance between what has been lived and what is remembered. The language that sustains the action, although fragmented and dense, offers snippets of dialogue that set the pace of the experience: a present reconstructed as a territory in suspension.

Each moment is a dazzling flash of light that pierces the consciousness of the protagonists like a glimpse of beauty within a life that is being recomposed and, in doing so, destroyed.

HOT – Never Here, Never Now is a perceptive exercise where light, sound, body and memory converge in a suspended landscape where memory is created and distorted at the same time, questioning the way we remember, feel and live the present.

Direction, Script and Edition : Ander Perez
Director Assistant: Iñigo Roncal 
Camera and DOP: Nuno Martini
Camera Assistant: Harabella Suzuki

Production: Afterimage, Bildgewalt and Ander Perez

Lucca: Dani Perez Zafra 
Chris: José Pablo Daroch Reinhardt-Picchioni
Fy (Skater 1): Flynn Anderson Archer 
Yay (Skater 2): Jeska Plagemann 

Production sound mixer and re-recording mixer: Diego Aguirre Gandara
Sound design and mix: Ander Perez
Voice in OFF: Candela Garazi

Dron team: UpUp Berlin
Drone pilot: Sebastian Simon

Drone camera operator: Jakob Mix 

Make up: Karla Romero Vargas

 

Extras: Esteban Martinez, Carlos Lopez and Javier Ortega

 

With the support of:

Eremuak Programme, Department of Culture and Language Policy of the Basque Country and Kulturfaktoria