THE COLOR OUT OF SPACE

EL COLOR QUE CAYÓ DEL CIELO

By Sergio WOLF

LA BURBUJA SOUND STUDIOS - as CONS

Documentary - Completed 2014

A meteor show inspires this journey-expedition through indigenous lore, greedy conquistadors, unsolved enigmas and smugglers, bringing together myth and science, past and present.

Festivals
& Awards

BAFICI (Buenos Aires) 2014
FICCI Cartagena 2014
Lima 2014
competencia oficial
FICVIÑA 2014
Competencia Latinoamericana de largometrajes
MOSTRA SAO PAULO 2014
Viennale 2014
Premios sur 2014
Best Documentary
Guadalajara FICG 2015
Documental Iberoamericano
    • Year of production
    • 2014
    • Genres
    • Documentary
    • Countries
    • ARGENTINA
    • Languages
    • SPANISH, ENGLISH
    • Duration
    • 75 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Sergio WOLF
    • EIDR
    • 10.5240/9FE9-3CDA-4823-C43C-B3C4-6
    • Synopsis
    • Starting at Campo del Cielo and travelling to Pittsburgh and Tucson in the US, Sergio Wolf chases down meteor hunters. Like in I Don’t Know What Your Eyes Have Done to Me, The Color Out of Space is also a detective story, an obsession story. The treasure hunters in Wolf’s film also have their Holy Grail or Arch of the Alliance, which in this case is the Mesón de Fierro, the great meteor discovered by the Spanish in the late 16th century, and considered to be missing two centuries later. History hides mysteries, mere legends perhaps, which only a few people affected by this peculiar gold fever dare to challenge, and even unearth. Ada Falcón was, indeed, alive in a convent. Since this is Sergio Wolf, no one would be surprised if at the end of his film he’s able to pull the Mesón de Fierro itself out of his top hat. But he has different goals: one can suspect he doesn’t care as much about meteors as he does about those obsessive searchers, so protective of their secrets.