El Huerco (which means death, abandonment and hell) was the first experimental film made in Venezuela*. The film has since been lost. All that remains is the original music, the film script, discarded footage, and the memories of those who saw the film over forty years ago.

Music For A Missing Film traces the spiritual and material remnants of the lost film, exploring the aesthetics of film restoration, reconstruction and montage in the context of fading collective cultural memory.

“Such greatness! can you believe it? it’s lost. The most glorious piece of Venezuelan filmmaking and it doesn't exist. We're inventing it, making it, reassembling it...based upon three things: a script, its music and some lost memories. Memories of an old world, that lost its memory.”

Rodolfo Izaguirre
Writer and Film Critic
Co-founder of Art Groups Techo de la Ballena and Sardio
Former Director of the National Cinemateque of Venezuela.

* Produced in 1962, El Huerco was screened in Venezuela and at the legendary Knokke Experimental Film Festival in 1963.


Digital Intermediate and Colour Grade Sponsored by
Ascent 142 - Soho Film Lab and Assimilate Scratch, London
Red One Sponsored by Los Sopranos Filman, Caracas

Funded by Arts Council England
with support from Film London Artists' Moving Image Network

http://flamin.filmlondon.org.uk/showcase/assets/showcase_items/music_for_a_missing_film