Abyssal

Alejandro Alonso – Director Introduction

Abyssal answers my obsession to explore those spaces where the Island reveals its most subtle contradictions. We are able to enter a universe where seemingly there is nothing but destruction. In this great limbo that this bay is, not only the ships are condemned, but also the scrappers that deliver the coup de grace.

Everyone is trapped in a routine where destruction is an act of faith. Some of the characters that appear on screen are serving a part of their prison sentences as scrappers. The paradox of destroying ships acquires another dimension through them.

Raudel, our protagonist, is 27 years old and has tried to leave three times in a boat for the USA, but has never been able to do so. Through him we enter the entrails of this great mechanism and its death ritual.

Accompanying him was an opportunity to immerse ourselves in a universe of visions and dreams, where the boundaries between reality and fiction are gradually being blurred. Abyssal found his final form in that strange moment where the light makes man and ship look like the same body.