Film Synopsis
Savage Facades is an audio-visual, fashion design, interior design and architecture appreciation piece, taking place in a residence in Mexico City designed by architecture firm Sulkin Askenazi, directed by Sulkin Askenazi & Vile Studio, filmed by Claudio Napolitano, as well as starring the neurotic Sophia Altholz.
This film is meant to provoke aesthetic thirst, hesitant nervousness, and uncomfortable meticulous yearning for an unachievable beauty. The main character is restlessly seeking flawlessness, amidst her seemingly perfect environment, remaining mostly unsatisfied; her inner calm is hanging by a very thin thread. Whether reading a book and spotting a loose twine, or the illusion of hearing sounds from the hidden closet, to the obsessive re-application of red polish after hundreds of tries; she is endlessly seeking perfection, in a loop where it seems unachievable. Perfection is just her exhausted illusion, being triggered by her surroundings of endless wooden squares, acute corners, and pristine design.
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Cast & Crew
- Executive Production
SULKIN ASKENAZI
- Directed by
Sulkin Askenazi & Vile Studio
(Jack Sulkin, Gabriel Askenazi,
Francisco Rondón & Salvador
Hernández)
- Assistant Director
Luis Fernando Vasquez
- Starring
SOPHIA ALTHOLZ
- Director of Photography
CLAUDIO NAPOLITANO
- Written by
Francisco Rondón & Salvador
Hernández in collaboration with
Jack Sulkin & Gabriel Askenazi
- Produced by
Vile Studio & Betsabé Basañez
- Production Manager
Betsabé Basañez
- Interior Design by
Sulkin Askenazi
- Still Photography
Salvador Hernández
- Music & Sound design
Daniel Peña
- Edited by
Adrenorama
- Art Direction by
Salvador Hernández for Vile Studio
- Art Assistant
Jorge Loyola
- Styling by
Francisco Rondón
- Styling Assistant
Daniela Altamira
- Hair Stylist
Sean Derbees
- Make Up Artist
Juanma Constantino
- Nail Artist
Paulina Andrade
- Data Manager
Arturo Silva
- Gaffer
Christopher Garnica
- Staff
Marco A Vargas
- Video Assist
Elihu Aguirre Escobar