Quicksilver Chronicles
75 minutes, 2019
Kate, Kemp and Tommy, aging but vital, and sometimes downright explosive, live in an abandoned mining town in the middle of California. It’s a story about deep-space exploration, about hunting for Benitoite gems, and the hunt for inner demons too, and about hyperventilating at seeing Trump’s face on the TV screen. And it’s about death itself, and about absence; which really just means it’s about life, about living intensely while you still got some time left.
directed by Ben Guez and Sasha Kulak
cinematography Sasha Kulak
produced by Misha MacLaird
executive producer Pedro González Rubio
sound editor Andrey Dergachev
color correction Mikhail Khursevich
"California dreams are ripped at the seams in Ben Guez and Sasha Kulak's Quicksilver Chronicles, a winning portrait of two aging siblings' defiant, anachronistic eccentricity and the ghostly former company town where they reside."
- The Hollywood Reporter
Visions du Réel (World Premiere), Switzerland
Moscow International Film Festival, Russia
Guanajuato International Film Festival, Mexico
Russian Film Festival Okno Filmfest, Russia (Main Prize: Diploma of the Guild of Film Critics of Russia)
Moscow Youth Film Festival Budem Fest, Russia (Diploma)
International Documentary Film Festival Flahertiana, Russia
International Film Festival Listapad, Belarus (Best Cinematography Prize)
Bogota International Documentary Film Festival, Colombia
Cali International Film Festival, Colombia
Pravo Ljudski Film Festival Sarajevo (Grand Prix), Bosnia and Herzegovina; Russian Film Festival Sputnik, Poland (Diploma)
Russian National Award (Laurel Branch Award), Russia
Cinequest, USA
Ethnocineca, Austria, Atlantidoc, Uruguay
RSI 1 TV, Switzerland.
