Caballo Negro is an invasion: a journey from the earth to the outer space or from the outer space to the earth. It is a pagan ritual of three telluric goddesses or the enchantment of the three weird witches. It is a homage to industrialization and to ballet. It is animal, human, alien and terrestrial. It is a soviet movie in green and white or a Catalan film in Ukrainian. Caballo Negro is a video based on the homonymous song by Spanish punk band Tu Madre. It was shot in Hostalric on July 2013 and it was directed by Tuixén Benet, photographed by Pau Castejón and produced by Oriol Caba. It is intended as a music video for a vanished band, but it is too pop to be a video dance. The video’s starting point is the ending of the director’s graduation choreography project: Projecte Final. Caballo Negro is a simple choreography of three girls pretending to be horses at a midsummer night in the middle of the woods.
Caballo Negro is a cover by Tu Madre of the original mambo song by cuban musician Dámaso Pérez Prado. The song was released in the album Valentina.
Director Tuixén Benet
Produced by Les Filles Föllen and El tigre de Cibèria
Producer Oriol Caba
Cinematographer Pau Castejón
Editor Ari Ribas
Color Correction Marc Morató at Metropolitana
1st AC Claudio Frola
2nd AC Manu Ruiz
Steadycam Pau Reig
Gaffer Arnau Mata
Spark Lluís Maymó, Tomás Muñoz
Stylist Isis V
Make up Susi Rodríguez a.k.a. perrukers
PA Laura Galofré, Marc Mitjà
Camera Servicevision
Shot on Alexa
Lens Zeiss HS T1.3, Angeniéux HR Zoom
Dancers Àngela Boix, Elena Martínez, Naya Monzón.
Thanks to Ramon Artemán, Ivan Caparrós, Remei González, Carles Mitjà, Montse Viader, Beatriz Macías, Andrea Just, Les Sueques, Lope Serrano, Margherita Bergamo, Inyaki Bosch, Tatxo Benet, Blanca Cosculluela, Txell Miras.
Awards
Festival Ull Nu 2015 Best Music Video
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