medias blancas
medias blancas
Director: Andrés Isaza
Producers: Ana María Correa y Juan Sebastián Patiño
Cinematography: Andrés Carrillo
Art Director: Alirio Cruz
Sound Recording: Sara Fernández
Sound Design: Rafael Santander
Editing: Juan Carlos Sánchez
Assistant Director: Santiago Parra
A young man looks for the cleanest socks in the neighborhood before some party can distract him from his task. Ignacio is a dedicated university student, a model of hard work and study, who wishes to have white socks and searches for the product which can make that available to him. The goal of the actions in this short film is the perfect white —the kind of white that shows Ignacio's cleanliness and personality, as well as his trivial values.
To have control over matter is a part of civilization's features and, also, a feature of a habit that Ignacio wants to perfect in spite of the distractions caused by one of his friends. Without attempting to filter the normality of the actions, at least two sequences will be key to indicate how one can come out from everyday life without great narrative or visual devices.
By using archive images, this short film acquires a bit of verisimilitude that montage itself does not provide. Ignacio, as a boy, plays by a pool with his siblings. The weather is ideal and timeless, marked by the flaws of time within the texture of the image. Thus helped by the format, we perceive the stains of a nostalgia that seeks to be projected in another moment of Ignacio's life.
Carlos Rgó from FICUNAM
selections and awards
selecciones y premios
- 2018 Selection 'Aciertos' in FICUNAM 2018 (Festival Internacional de Cine de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México) (MEX) [International Premiere]
- 2018 Winner first place National short film at 10º Maratón de Cortometrajes Pantalones Cortos, Medellín (COL)
- 2018 'Special mention' in 3 Eureka Festival Universitario de Cine, Bogotá (COL)
- 2018 'Special mention' Official selection university en Festival Cortos Cali 2018, Cali (COL)
- 2017 Selection 'Panorama Ficción' in 15 BOGOSHORTS (Festival de Cortos de Bogotá) (COL) [World/National Premiere]
- 2018 'National Competition' in 10 Festival Internacional de Cine de Cali FICCALI (COL) curated by Luis Ospina.
- 2019 Muestra 'Voces - Bogoshorts Film Market (BFM)' at the 21 Semana del Cortometraje De la Comunidad Autónoma de Madrid (SPA)
- 2018 FICU - Festival Internacional de Cine Universitario (ARG)
- 2018 'Competencia de Cortometrajes Caleidoscopio' at 3er Festival de Cine al Jardín, Antioquia (COL) directed by Víctor Gaviria.
- 2018 Official Selection at 11 CINETORO Experimental Film Festival (COL)
- 2018 Showcase '30 años de la ECYTV UNAL' at 16 BOGOSHORTS (COL) curated by Diana Bustamante.
- 2018 Competencia de Cortometrajes - Escuela Nacionales en 12 Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente de Villa de Leyva (COL)
- 2019 Seletion 'Trabajo de Escuela o Universidad' at Salón Internacional de la Luz SIL (COL)
- 2018 Panorama Ficción at 10 Festival de Cine Corto de Popayán (COL)
- 2019 Official Selection 5ta Feria Internacional de Cine Independiente FECI Bogostá
- 2018 Official Selection Graduation Films at XX Equinoxio Festival de Cine Universitario, Bogotá (COL)
- 2018 Selection 'Cine(y)Digital' at XVII International Image Festival in Manizales (COL)
- 2018 Winner Best Fiction Short Film at Premios Corte Final 2018 in Pereira (COL)
- 2018 Selection at Festival de Cine Universitario La Noche Americana (COL)
- 2018 Selection at 18 Festival de Cortometrajes Cine a la Calle in Barranquilla (COL)
- 2018 Showcase UNAL FEST 2018
- 2019 Showcase Best Graduation Film from Escuela de Cine y TV - Universidad Nacional de Colombia at UNAL FEST
- 2020 DVD Audiovisual showcase 30 Años Escuela de Cine y Televisión 1988-2018
- 2023 Retrospective 25 Anniversary Festival Equinoxio
- 2016 Winner 'Short Film Writing Workshop' in BIFF 2016 (Bogota International Film Festival).
- 2016 Winner of the fund 'Beca Cinemateca para Creación de Cortometraje de Ficción Alternativo 2016' of Idartes (Distrital Institute for the Arts, Bogota)