The Voice Thief (2014)

A man goes on a surreal odyssey through Miami’s psychedelic underworld in search of his wife’s missing voice.

Adan Jodorowsky created this film for Borscht 8.

Premiere: l'Etrange Festival Paris, 2014 (Short Film Grand Jury Prize Winner, Short Film Audience Award Winner)

Screenings

  • l'Etrange Festival Paris, 2014 (Winner, Short Film Grand Jury Prize; Winner, Short Film Audience Award)
  • Slamdance Film Festival, 2014
  • Rotterdam Film Festival, 2014
  • Fantastic Fest, 2014 (Winner, Best Fantastic Short)
  • Nashville Film Festival, 2014
  • Seattle International Film Festival, 2014
  • Florida Film Festival, 2014
  • Lucca Film Festival, 2014
  • Lausanne Underground Film and Music Festival, 2014 (Winner, Best Short Fiction)

Full Credits

writer/director: Adan Jodorowsky

story by: Alejandro Jodorowsky

naya: Asia Argento

noev: Cristobal Jodorowsky

little man: Jean Yves Thual

maria: Serra Yilmaz

the saint: Helene Nymann

naya assistant: Paolo Calia

iris's grandmother: Marie-Jose Salas De Ballesteros

dancing girl: Ylva Falk

neighbor 1: Xamira Zuloaga

neighbor 2: Cosmo Gonik

neighbor 3: Nicolas Ullmann

vagabond 1: Brad Scott

vagabond 2: Kevin Michaels

vagabond 3: Jonathan Marshall

friend 1: Xavier Polycarpe

friend 2: May Alexandrov

friend 3: Vincent Polycarpe

friend 4: Mathiew Parnaud

friend 5: Yan Gorodetzky

soldier 1: Arnaud Vallens

soldier 2: Pascal Dumini

soldier 3: Jonathan ,icho

soldier 4: Mathkos

extra street: Louise Deville, Primo Mazzoni, Andres Abel

extra church: David Szehi, Jimmy McCarthy, Jaime Zimmerman, Jared Gaston

producer: Aurelie Florent, Adan Jodorowsky, Mathieu Sauer, Gabriela Serra

associate producer: Gabriela, Camilo Navarro, Daniel G. During, Patrick Hussein Davison, Gabriel Charles

executive producer: Xavier Guerrero Yamamoto, Cyril Lepesant, Lucas Leyva

production manager: Emilie Richemont

location manager: Jordan Santoul

unit manager: James Pouwels, Jeremy Benabou, Asdrubal Elio

standby unit manager: Nathalia Acevedo

first assistant director: Clement Chabert

second assistant director: Caroline Pau

script supervisor: Mathilde Vallet, Elise Romestant

casting assistant: Yannick Mourcia

music by: ROB

cinematography: Alexis Zabe

first assistant camera: Alexandre Cartigny

second assistant camera: Sarah Eyraud-Ardouin

steadicam operator: Fabienne Roussignol

gaffer: Raphael Besson

assistant gaffer: Adrien Chata, Benjamin Cataliotti-Valdina

electricians: Julien Malichier, David Tshiakatumba, Gerald Durand

key grip: Thomas Lamouroux

key grip assistant: Sacha Duval

art direction: Julien Richard

costume design:Aymeric Bergada du Cadet

supervising sound editor:Pascal Busolin

sound: Benoit Guerineau

sound mixer: Louis Limpalaer

sound editor: Pascal Busolin

boom operator: Jean-Philippe Marin

sound editor assistants: Emilie Arrive, Louic Ancelin

vfx director: Umaru Embalo

vfx supervisors: Ekkarat Rodthong, Cristina Gomez

costume designer: Aymeric Bergada Du Cadet

make-up: Sairai Fiszel, Nora Hamel, Francine Thekal, Gwenaelle Bedouet

boom operator: Jean-Philippe Marin

digital compositor: Felipe Astorga

director of post-production: Xavier Guerrero Yamamoto, Mathieu Sauer

film editor: Mathias Trouvat

music mixer: Jack Lahana

colorist: Julien Houillon

legal: Abi Sirokh

About the Filmmaker

Adan Jodorowsky: Born in France, Jodorowsky is the son of Chilean Alejandro Jodorowsky and Mexican Valerie Trumblay, and is the brother to Brontis Jodorowsky. He has appeared in seven films to this day. As an actor, he won the Saturn Award for Best Performance by a Younger Actor in 1989 for his role as the Young Fenix in Santa Sangre, one of his father's more renowned films.

Jodorowsky started playing piano at the age of six. At the age of seven, he met James Brown at the backstage of a concert. Brown taught Adan how to dance like him. Jodorowsky's first guitar lessons were given by The Beatles guitarist George Harrison who was a friend of his parents. In this occasion Harrison told him that "he was far", Adan did not know if "he was far" in an enlightened way or "far" from being a good guitarist.

When he was sixteen he joined the punk band The Hellboys, then he wanted to try another music genre and meet Yarol Poupaud and Adrienne Pauly, Following these encounters he started playing bass.

On October 30, 2006, he released his first solo album, Étoile Éternelle, as "Adanowsky", and his first single, L'idole (meaning "the idol") which was also released in Spanish as El Idolo; the song is about a waiter who wants all the attention and dreams of becoming famous and an idol.

In 2010 he helped on Alizée's new album, writing a song for her called La Candida. He has also composed works such as Echek (2000) and Teou (2001), as well as directing Echek, "Un Sol Con Corazón" and "El Idolo". In 2011 he released his third solo album "Amador" and won the UFI award for "Best International Artist Of The Year".

In 2012 he produced the first solo (golden) album of León Larregui (Lead singer of the famous Mexican band "Zoé")

After 22 years, he is playing in his father's new movie La Danza De La Realidad coming out in 2013.

The Voice Thief is his first short film.

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