// Your online documentary cinema //



City of Signs  //  La Ciudad de los Signos (Orig.)

DIR: Samuel Alarcón
2009 / Spain / 62 min

Stream

Price

0.0 €

About the Stream format

You have free access (zero price).

Audio tracks: esp

Subtitles: eng

Watch the film on-line, for the lowest price, in decent quality and without need to download anything!

Recommend this film

In March 1980, César Alarcón traveled to Pompeii on an ambitious project: to collect 'psychophonies' - electronic voice phenomena - from Vesuvius’s great eruption that destroyed the city. After listening to all of his recordings, he finds that none contain sounds from the year 79 AD. However, one of the tapes caught a much more recent and peculiar bit of conversation that César had heard somewhere before.

City of Signs is a journey through the films of Italian director Roberto Rossellini. His movies were a stiletto opening the breach through which all modern film would later pass. The spaces he used as locations in his films still conserve signs from the shooting, signs that form part of an immense city constructed behind both the living and the dead.

About

Director Samuel Alarcón
Screenplay Samuel Alarcón, Mercedes Cebrián, Juan Pablo Heras
Dir. of Photography Javier Cardenete
Editing Héctor Rodriges
Music Eneko Vadillo
Sound Mitsuo Nakata, Gésesis Candela
Duration 62 min
Year 2009
Country Spain
Colour Colour, Black & White
Tags cities, film, historical
Production Samuel Alarcon producciones
Samuel Alarcon producciones
Country:  Spain
E-mail:  

Distribution
Festivals

Documenta Madrid 09 Sección ...

Documenta Madrid 09 Sección oficial de largometraje de creación.
Muestra de cine del Atlántico Alcances Cádiz 09. Sección oficial de largometrajes.
Festival internacional de cine de Ourense 09. Sección oficial de documentales.
Muestra de cortometrajes Cortomieres 10. Sección oficial de no ficción.
Festival de cine de Madrid PNR 09. Sección oficial fuera de concurso.
Marfici. Muestra de cine de Mar del Plata 23. Mar del Plata. Argentina. Sección Oficial.
Festival de cine Latinoamericano de LLeida 10. Sección oficial de documentales.
Festival Planet Doc 10. Varsovia, Polonia. Sección informativa.
Festival de cine pobre de Cuba 2010. Sección oficial.
Athens Ohio Film Festival 2010. Sección Oficial.
Pattras independet Film Festival 2010. Patras, Grecia. Sección oficial.
Festival Internazionale di Ischia 2010. Sección Informativa.

Awards

Audience award. Documenta Madrid ...

Audience award. Documenta Madrid 2009
Special mention of the jury. Alcances Cádiz 2009
Special mention of the jury. Cortomieres 2010



News

Single Shot Indonesia

Single Shot Indonesia

For more than 10 years, Dutch director Leonard Retel Helmrich has been returning to the homeland of his parents to observe and record the transformation of Indonesia in the turbulent years of economic and cultural globalization. The Dafilms portal presents all of the three parts of his famous documentary trilogy, including the latest film Position among the Stars. On the backdrop of the tension in Indonesian society, Helmrich’s camera follows the Sjamsuddin family living their daily lives of work and worries, mutual love and hatred. In the week from May 21, you can watch the first two parts of the trilogy; The Eye of the Day and Shape of the Moon; for free.

Read more…

- 21.5.2012 -

Eastern Promises

Eastern Promises

This week the Dafilms portal presents a considerable portion of European “exoticism”. Take a trip through the unique landscape of the Balkans with three remarkable documentaries. Although the protagonists of The Shutka Book of Records, The Mosquito Problem and Bahtalo! are rather poor, do not expect a heavy social drama. One can only live merrily without money! From May 14, you can watch the three films for free for a whole week.

Read more…

- 14.5.2012 -

True Stories from Russia

True Stories from Russia

Watch or download films about true life in Russia: Kommunalka (free on May 7 and May 8!), Durakovo – the Village of Fools and Mr. Triska's Epoch Making Trip to Russia.

Read more…

- 8.5.2012 -

More news…

Media - Europe loves cinema

Design: Rasmus Fly Filbert
Software: Vladimír Macek