The Human Surge

Synopsis

In Williams’ début feature, The Human Surge follows groups of young people in Buenos Aires, Argentina; Maputo, Mozambique; and Bohol in the Philippines. Poor, restless, and searching for connection with other human beings, the characters wander across jungles, up mountains, and down into caves beneath the earth’s surface, forming a triptych of three distinct, but seamlessly connected, segments that play with a techno-space-time continuum of Williams’ own devising. Shot with three different cameras on three different formats –16mm film for the Argentinian segment, a Blackmagic pocket camera in Mozambique, and a digital RED for the Philippine sequence operated by Williams, Joaquín Neira and Julien Guillery respectively, an entire universe evolves, consisting of various scales of story, portraiture, and friendship.

Director Biography

Eduardo Williams studied at Universidad del Cine in Buenos Aires (Argentina), then at Le Fresnoy, studio national des arts contemporains (France). Retrospectives of his short films have been organized throughout Europe and South America. The Human Surge is his feature debut.