03 · 04 · 14 Short film by Alfonso Cuarón available online Share with twitter Share with facebook Share with mail Copy to clipboard Here we present one of Alfonso Cuarón’s earlier films. The Mexican filmmaker recently added a Best Director Academy Award to his multiple international awards for Gravity (2013), the 11th FICM’s opening film. Before making monumental movies like Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004), Children of Men (2006) and, of course, Gravity, Alfonso Cuarón was a film student with limited time and budget. One of his first short films was shot in 16mm when he was studying at the Centro Universitario de Estudios Cinematográficos (CUEC) in 1983, it’s called Cuarteto para el fin del tiempo and you can see it subtitled in English here: Cuarteto para el fin del tiempo stars Angel Torralba and Ramón Barragán (and a domestic turtle); cinematography is by Ariel Velazquez; music is by Olivier Messiaen; sound is by Luis Estrada; editing is by Alfonso Cuarón and Ariel Velazquez; and it’s written and directed by Alfonso Cuarón. Do you recognize the mark of a great director in the beginning of his career?
