HIROSHIMA

Uruguay, 2009, 80 minutes, Colour.
Juan Andres Stoll.
Directed by Pablo Stoll.

Hiroshima is a festival film. It is experimental, not having any spoken word heard by the audience but rather inserting brief captions. There is continuous musical accompaniment, contemporary music including a piece which gives the name to the film, Hiroshima.

The film focuses on a young man, Juan Andres Stoll, and we follow him for the first almost ten minutes, camera focusing on the back of his head, as he walks home. This indicates the style and pace of the film. We see the various things that happen to this young man, riding his bike, going for a swim, meeting friends, rolling cigarettes, walking the streets, going to shops… Finally he goes to a club where he sings, in a voice that sounds rather constricted and stylised.

The film will interest those who follow experimental films – but will test the patience of most audiences, especially with the first ten minutes.

The film was directed by Pablo Stoll, who co-directed the very successful Uruguayan comedy, Whisky, 2006.