Rickshaw
Synopsis: Paul and his family are going for a fun rickshaw ride when a sudden surprising encounter stops them on their journey home.
Director Statement
This film comes from a personal memory. I had a similar encounter in India when I was 8. Years later I wanted to return to it and explore it further, as it was a revolting and concise microcosm of different classes and ages in conflict, which also mirrored each other.
It had been a deep existential experience for me, involving fate, injustice and personal choice. I wanted to recreate it with a minimum of words and a maximum of actions, a montage of moving images and sounds, to pose open questions for anyone to discuss and answer their way.
Director Biography - Raphaël Hernandez
Studied in the UK for the past 5 years, Warwick (BA Film studies) London Film School (MA Filmmaking). Started working in the film industry with credits including fiction films and commercials for production companies such as Bruno Levy’s Move Movie and Iconoclast.
At LFS, aside from directing, worked as a DoP for several shorts including Yousef El Said’s Sci-Fi MEERKAT, and Florian Kasperski Graduation film Lunatics. And also as a Producer for Ruijing Bu’s Unclaimed, and as a Production Designer for Jessie Barnett’s Bye Bye Baby. About to release a series of live action shorts, Rickshaw being the first of them. The second, START/STOP, is in pre-production.