Tropical Vulture

Tropical Vulture — Plot

Tropical Vulture is a cross-generational project which highlights the artistic influences between George Kuchar, a Bay Area legend of independent filmmaking, and Mexican artist Miguel Calderón. Tropical Vulture is an experimental narrative video, co-directed by both artists, and blends Hollywood glamour and drama with an all-too-real life approach, which creates and inspires a counterpoint of unattainable desire against unbearable actuality. The video, shot on location in Acapulco, utilizes a “lo-fi” aesthetic and playful use of nonprofessional actors. Tropical Vulture is entrenched in corruption, tourism, and post-colonialism and it uses a loose narrative to create a portrait of a relationship between student and teacher.

• Runtime
• 13 min
• Genres
• Crime, Thriller, Comedy
• Director
• Miguel Calderon

Tropical Vulture — Cast

George Kuchar Dean

C

Cecilia Pelosi Cecilia

M

Mauricio Calderon Mauricio

E

Elizabeth Gonzalez Hardman Ellie

S

Sarah Fanelli Sarah

Z

Zamora Cop

C

Cadete Cop II

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Sacale Boat Driver