LIKE ME - poster

BORIS ALEXANDER SCHIPPER

LIKE ME

2022

 

Single-channel film, colour, sound

Spanish with English subtitles

Director’s cut 28 min / festival cut 21 min

2.69:1, 5.1 surround

Written, directed and production design by Boris Alexander

Produced by Peculiar Minds, Madrid

 

Cast: Alexandra Masangkay, Patricia Villalón-Robles, Julieta Toribio, Sara Martínez Sanz

Director of photography: Rafael Reparaz

Editing: Rocío Pérez

Music: Mario Batkovic

Sound: Daniel Peña

Art: Bel Gonyalons, Ernesto Soriano

 

Executive producers: Eva Maria Bucher-Haefner, Roger Guntern, Boris Alexander Schipper

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LIKE ME is the first film in which Boris Alexander worked with dialogue. It follows Alba, a young woman inhabiting a parallel and distorted reality inside a large family house, and Chus, who compels other women to live there in order to control her and remain close to her. The film confines three women within a single domestic system and observes what that containment produces.


The work belongs to a continuous line of inquiry into the image and the conditions under which it is believed. Production design was written into the script rather than built around it. The clear acrylic case constructed for the film now exists as an autonomous work, VITRINE (just looking). Three film stills are held together as LIKE ME triptych, 2022.


First screened October 2022. Distributed by Selected Films, Madrid. Festival selections include Málaga Short Corner, Seoul International Extreme Shorts and Image Festival (SESIFF), Sol Film Festival Torrevieja and Inspirational Film Festival, Switzerland.