UN DRAGÓN DE CIEN CABEZAS

UN DRAGÓN DE CIEN CABEZAS

Helena Girón, Samuel M. Delgado / 15 min. / 2024 / Spain
Cortometraje Ficción y Animación 2025

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DIRECTION: Helena Girón, Samuel M. Delgado

SCRIPT: Helena Girón, Samuel M. Delgado

CINEMATOGRAPHY: Jose Alayón

PRODUCTION: Marina Alberti

EDITING: Helena Girón, Samuel M. Delgado

SOUND: Carlos E. García, Ezequiel Pinedo

CAST: Elena Navarro, Xavier García, Melvi Hernandez, Gustavo González, Randy Yanez, Armando Rodriguez

Synopsis

In the Garden of the Hesperides, a fruit grew that could grant immortality to anyone that ate it. The garden was in an unknown location, somewhere at sea along the West African coasts, protected by a hundred-headed dragon. By applying bio-sonification techniques to banana trees —nowadays the Canary Islands’ main monoculture— we unearth a fable about eternal life in one of the places where this mythical space was once believed to be.

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Helena Girón, Samuel M. Delgado

Girón and Delgado’s work explores the connections between mythology, history and materialism. Their first feature film, Eles transportan a morte (They carry death, 2021), premiered and received awards at the Venice and San Sebastián festivals. Their short films have been screened at the Toronto, Locarno, New York, and Ann Arbor festivals, among many others. They have created installations and performances at art centers such as MNCARS (Madrid), CCCB (Barcelona), CGAC (Santiago de Compostela), BAM (New York), TEA (Tenerife), and Galeria Solar (Vila do Conde).

Filmography
2024 A Hundred-Headed Dragon [short]
2023 Bloom [short]
2021 They Carry Death
2019 Irmandade [short]
2017 Plus Ultra [short]