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About Arches
“Arches” seahorse
All movies have their own personal time, process and format. I want “Arches”
to be my debut film as a Director. “Arches” has been my best school so far,
it got me to festivals, seminars all over the world, film markets and
introduced me to the obscure world of actors. It is and will continue to be
my best teacher.
ARCHES is a movie about movement. Growing up in asphyxiating worlds where
any sudden turn into adulthood becomes a catastrophe. Following the story of
Dora, a teenager looking for answers about her father’s identity, we
submerge ourselves into the reality of a small town by the beach, where
small events are the highlights of a mind-numbing rollercoaster of routine.
While writing ARCHES, I tried to capture that very special moment where we
stop being kids with dreams to become adults without ambitions. That
particular moment when you realize, that things are not going to be as easy
as you thought. That passage, that moment of truth is ARCHES.
The movie is filled with symbolism in landscape and dialogue, as I believe
subtext can be amazingly powerful when telling simple stories.
The immensity of nature, the absurd intensity of urban architecture are both
characters in this movie that create tension, movement and relief as the
character walks the path to knowledge and freedom.
Music, the use of texture and postproduction are key to my way of seeing
film. I come from a background in Animation, so the esthetic choices I make
come from that place of power of the Animator: The God (or Goddess) that can
create marvellous worlds from scratch. Rules of reality are your own rules.
Reality is just a platform to create something else, something bigger and
even more magical.
  
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Writer and Director
My mom never read fairy tales to me, as she thought those stories were very
cruel for a little girl. She chose Greek mythology as bedtime stories, which
of course proved to be was cruel as Cinderella, but probably those two
choices made me who I am today as a writer.
Big fan of Joseph Cambell’s work, I use mythology and fairy tale structure
to create the twisted worlds I see for my movies. I believe different
journeys are al we face in this life and how we face them, what we do in the
path to get to the “destination” and the magic potions we pick up on the
road to get there, are the soul of my work as a writer.
 
List of chapters and location scouting
I deeply believe that everything I do as a writer/director/producer or back
up singer is preparing me to be able to Direct this film. Producers call me
ambitious, but I think ambition and patience are a good combination. I’m not
in a rush to join a team I don’t belong to. I’m not anxious to be something
I’m not.
This is who I am. A person in permanent state or re invention and
inspiration.
These are the images I see. These are the worlds I create. This is me when I
play God in my dreams.
Favorite Quote to for directors
I was once asked: "So,
you want to be a director?
- But... You’re not Almodóvar!"
Come on.
Think of all the context of that line.
I was sixteen.
I guess when
Almodóvar was sixteen
was not Fellini either.
So, well..
Robert Rodríguez
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