La Ultima Pelicula
Directed by Raya Martin And Mark Peranson
2013Feature88 minMexico
An egomaniacal filmmaker (Alex Ross Perry) crosses the Yucatán on the eve of the 'end of the world' to make his last movie, a psychedelic Western.
Synopsis
A filmmaker (Alex Ross Perry), along with his local guide (Gabino Rodríguez), traverse the Yucatán in the days leading up to the “end of the world” with the idea of making his last movie. They look at possible locations, journeying to Chichen Itza on December 21, encountering a surrealistic gathering of New Agers and Mayan mystics. They meet a local TV reporter (Iazua Larios), who the filmmaker casts in his psychedelic Western. After the film is shot, the misunderstood and egomaniacal filmmaker decides to remain in Mexico, editing his masterpiece, forever.
The director
Raya Martin And Mark Peranson
Raya Martin is a Filipino filmmaker known for formally daring films about history and cinema. Mark Peranson is a Canadian critic, the editor of Cinema Scope and a former Locarno programmer.
