This short documentary portrays the Almadraba tuna fish catch in the Straits of Gibraltar. Almadraba tuna is caught by an elaborate, age-old Arabic technique of setting nets in a maze that traps the fish as they return to the Mediterranean to reproduce. A ritual of hunt, blood and death depicted in seppia photography and masterfully directed to capture the movement and dynamics in a harsh battle between man and animal.
El cerco
Localized Title
The Fence
Genre
Documentary
Country
Spain
Year
2005
Duration
12'
Production Companies
Centre d'Estudis Cinematogràfics de Catalunya (CECC)
Languages
Spanish
Director's Notes
Director's Notes
«The sepia tone and the alteration of the shutter cause that old film effect. The effect eliminates the red color of the blood and then the spectacle of the death does not surprise us by the cruelty but by the dimension and strength of the fight, a desperate fight to survive. At the same time this effect emphasized the ancestral side of the tunny net of Barbate, practiced in a totally artisan way, as the Arabs did more than 500 years ago». (Ricardo Iscar)
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