A man and a woman, two travelers heading towards their final stop, meet in a cheap motel room. They drink, listen to music, have sex, and contemplate the time that passes them by. International Title Genesis Year of production 2025 Length 20' CountryMexico Shooting Format Arri Alexa 35 Aspect Ratio 1.37:1 (3:2) Dialogue Spanish
DirectorGabriel González Acosta Producers René Hope, Camila Ibarra Production Companies Iridio, Honey Bastards Films, Agüita Executive Producers Veronica Leon, Yamel Thompson Writer Gabriel González Acosta CinematographerMika Altskan Editor Andrés Pepe Estrada (SAE) Sound Designer Carlos Edelmiro Production Design Jesica Sarraf Costume Design Lorena Maza Sound recordist Emaher Martínez Special Effects Efeccine Mobile Visual Effects Vadim Konov Cast Florencia Ríos, Estanislao Marín
Festival selections Shorts Mexico 2025 - World Premiere
Director's Statement Génesis is a story of love, limits, and transgression. Addressing the way in which the membranes that surround us are desecrated every day, it questions the role of the sacred, the spiritual, and the desire of the other within the limits of our daily life. It is a vision that speaks about our inability to love transcendentally in this world. The man and the woman, the protagonists, contemplate together the ruin that life has made of them. They exist in the ennui of banality that brutally entraps them. For them, the material world is no longer enough. They stare at the void and decide to give themselves to it, in an act of absolute faith. My interest lies not in viewing their final act as one that stems from a lack, but as an attraction towards the sublime possibility of transcendence. The apparent violence of their actions, reflected by the wear and tear of the objects and the space that surrounds them, is not nihilism but a communion with what exists beyond the world. It is an act whose violence is intertwined with empathy, beauty, and love. Génesis is imbued by time and the brutality of its passage - unstoppable - through the lives of the protagonists. I am interested in making death visible, especially at a time like the one in which we are living, and accepting it as a step into the unknown. It is through the annihilation of their world that the man and the woman open the door to hope, as a radical act of transformation, through their acceptance of finitude they surrender to the ecstasy of the fire. There they open a dialogue with the unknown, with the abyss that looks back at them.
