BORIS ALEXANDER SCHIPPER
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
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.