Heaven is Nobody's
2024 · 12m · Spain, USA
Directed by Hector Prats
Tones: dark, melancholic, mythic
In a dark contemporary fable inspired by the 1518 Strasbourg dancing plague, a boy traverses a nightmarish city to find a cure as an unstoppable dancing curse descends upon his mother.
Picked by Margot
The scouts
Prats builds his dark fable on the extraordinary historical foundation of the 1518 dancing plague, deploying black-and-white expressionism and a hyper-sensorial score.
1518 Strasbourg dancing plague transposed to a contemporary city with techno score — that's a historical-source nerd making something genuinely his own. Twelve minutes, black and white, mythic register. I'm curious.
Transposing the 1518 Strasbourg dancing plague into contemporary black-and-white with a techno score and a boy searching for a cure for his mother — Prats's mythic-but-urban frame is a swing, and dancing-as-curse is a kinetic premise the form has to physically embody. The execution risk is real but the ambition is undeniable.
Festivals
- Palm Springs ShortFest 2025