"DVD"
Director's Commentary
"I have spent the last 28 years of my life doing research for 'DVD'. The main purpose of the short film was to tell a classic story of 'Boy meets Girl' in a different way, and starring movie, video-games and comic-book geeks.
"We take a peek inside the geek world as if we were watching a dvd, with audio commentary, scene selection, music video, trailer, deleted scene, alternative ending, etc. All of these extras, widely known to the majority of viewers thanks to the popularity of the format, are indeed part of the narrative. They help to move along the story in a different way.
"And it's a very personal story, too. All the props are taken directly from my shelves; even the t-shirts were from my closet. It was shot between Madrid (the city where I live) and Zaragoza (the city where I was born) with HD Cameras. Except the fake documentary where, in order to get a really, truly bad image on purpose we shot it with a Super VHS camera.
"The short film is full of details like that: the Japanese spoken during the trailer is proper Japanese, all the spots and scratches in the 'deleted scene' were done by hand, with no computer effects whatsoever and the song and music video for 'Copyright for Love' was composed, recorded and shot just for the end credits.
"Even the poster was created by Alfonso Azpiri, creator of 'Lorna' and most of the covers of Spanish video games during the 80s. And the actor who appears in a cameo is Fernando Esteso, one of the biggest Spanish comedians during the 70s and an icon to a whole generation who grew up watching his movies on TV over and over.
"All of it told as an homage to the modern geek. And, although the short film plays with the clichés of the film fanatics, it avoids falling into those traps. So our main characters are not caricatures with Woody Allen-type glasses. They have friends, girlfriends, ex-girlfriends. They only try to fit in as best as they can, as if life was a game of 'Tetris'.
"I hope that you enjoy this short film, it took more than six months of hard work to make and a team of sixty people. who have now four degrees of separation with Kevin Bacon!"
-Ciro Altabás
