Cada ver es... (1981)
Cada ver es... (1981)
Almost unknown documentary about Juan Espada del Corso, the man in charge of the Valencia´s morgue. Directed by elusive avant-garde director Angel García del Val with the participation of many inmates of the insane asylum of Bétera. CADA VER ES... (untranslatable word game with "cadaver", corpse in Spanish) works like a bizarre and sometimes haunting cross between Bunuel´s LOS OLVIDADOS or LAS HURDES and Brakhage´s THE ACT OF SEEING WITH ONE´S EYES. This is not mondo exploitation, it´s more akin to what Andre Bazin once called "cinema of cruelty".
The very plain and straightforward forensic talks about his lonely life, his vision problems, child memories, and of course about his work, his relation with the corpses ("I am very fond of them, no matter women or men"), about scary movies ("They don´t scare me, it´s all fake" in Hitchcock´s The Birds segment), funny stories with the students, and about death, which he awaits without fear of any kind and expects to be beautiful ("death is the same for everyone, life is not"). In the meantime we see him working with the corpses, taken them out of a pit, chopping, embalming, cleaning them... Very disturbing images including a baby corpse and some other grotesque carcasses and body parts.
Movie Link: http://www.movshare.net/video/7c3i8l0p9ixng
IMDB: http://akas.imdb.com/title/tt1259522/
