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“Oculto El Sol”: Música, Oscuridad y Secretos

"Hidden The Sun": Music, Darkness, and Secrets

Fabricio L. D´Alessandro is one of the new faces in the FX ANIMATION Barcelona 3D & Film School cinema area. With a vast background in the advertising world as a director and editor, and as a teacher, Fabricio lands in Barcelona to coordinate and tutor the school's students' internships. But he has not come alone, as he brings from Argentina "Oculto el sol" (2016), his directorial debut, a feature film co-produced by Señora X Productions, a production company of FX ANIMATION. A risky and hard-to-classify proposal that comes preceded by awards and has been selected in several of the most prestigious festivals in Latin America.

Hidden Sun by Fabricio D'Alessandro

Hidden Sun Movie

“Oculto el sol” originated from work during an acting workshop conducted by D´Alessandro. Similar to how John Cassavetes debuted in 1959 with "Shadows" from a series of exercises with a group of acting students, the Argentine director has created his feature film based on small plots involving pairs of actors from a course. This is the reason for its peculiar narrative structure: seven apparently disconnected stories, which the director connects through various cinematic elements and staging. A structure that refers to modern classics like "Short Cuts" (1993) by Robert Altman or "Magnolia" (1999) by Paul Thomas Anderson, movies that use different intertwining stories leading to a common place, where characters jump from one story to another facing an ending resolved by a kind of “deus ex-machina”; an earthquake and a rain of frogs respectively, fracturing the story into an impossible resolution. “Oculto el sol” also employs a final narrative device tied to nature in the form of a solar eclipse, without the expected resource of relating all its protagonists. The characters move in the distance, with a sense of being in adjacent rooms separated by thin partitions.

It is this eclipse, which at times leaves the city and all the characters in the plot without light, that surprisingly unleashes all the secrets in the form of lies, longings, fears, and desires hidden in the rooms, cars, and courtyards where the different stories take place. The moon that hides the sun is the same moon that nests in this tangle of relationships among siblings, lovers, friends, work colleagues, boyfriends, fathers, and sons. A set of stories delving into certain dark parts of the soul, but which the director mostly presents in broad daylight, in interiors with windows open to hope, forgiveness, and liberation.

D´Allesandro's style, with a subtle handheld camera, follows the actors in long shots, focusing on their faces and reactions, as they are the true protagonists of the film. Always in search of the poetic, he finds many of these moments in silences, in the protagonists' curious gestures, and especially in the film's final part. A part in which music, another highly present element throughout the film, unifies the different stories through a song, shedding light and life on the eclipse. A music that moves and penetrates those thin partitions separating their rooms, flooding all the plots.

Fabricio L. D´Alessandro is one of the new faces at the FX ANIMATION Barcelona 3D & Film School's cinema department. With a significant background in advertising as a director and editor, as well as experience as a teacher, Fabricio arrives in Barcelona to coordinate and supervise the students' internships at the school. But he has not come alone, as he brings "Oculto el sol" (2016) from Argentina, his debut feature film as a director, a full-length film coproduced by Señora X Productions, a production company of FX ANIMATION. An audacious and hard-to-classify proposal that comes with awards and has been selected at various prestigious festivals in Latin America.
I hide Fabricio D'Alessandro's sun.

“Oculto el sol” is born as a result of work during an actors workshop taught by D´Alessandro. Just like John Cassavetes debuted in 1959 with “Shadows” based on a series of exercises with a group of acting students, the Argentine director has created his film based on small plots involving pairs of actors from a course. This is the reason for its peculiar narrative structure: seven seemingly disconnected stories, but the director links them through various cinematic elements and staging. A structure that harkens back to modern classics such as “Short Cuts” (1993) by Robert Altman or “Magnolia” (1999) by Paul Thomas Anderson, films that use different stories that intertwine toward a common place, where characters jump from one story to another leading to an ending resolved by a sort of “deus ex-machina”; an earthquake and a rain of frogs, respectively, which end up blowing up the narrative into an impossible resolution. “Oculto el sol” also uses a final narrative resource related to nature in the form of a solar eclipse, but without the expected resource of connecting all its protagonists. The characters move at a distance, but with the feeling of being in adjacent rooms separated by thin partitions.

It is this eclipse, which at times leaves the city and all the characters in the plot in darkness, that surprisingly reveals all the secrets that hide in the rooms, cars, and courtyards where the different stories unfold, in the form of lies, desires, fears, and wishes. The moon that conceals the sun is the same moon that nests in this tangle of relationships between siblings, lovers, friends, work colleagues, boyfriends, fathers, and sons. A set of stories that navigates through certain dark parts of the soul, but that its director shows almost always in broad daylight, in interiors with windows open to hope, forgiveness, and liberation.

D´Allesandro's style, with a subtle handheld camera, follows the actors in long shots, focusing on their faces and reactions, as they are the true protagonists of the film. Always in search of the poetic, he finds several of these moments in silences, in gestures of curiosity from the protagonists, and above all in the final part of the film. A part in which music, another very present element throughout the film, unifies the different stories through a song, shedding light and life on the eclipse. Music that moves and crosses those thin partitions that separate their rooms and floods all the plots.