Soul beats

18′, 2021, color, Chile

A musical road trip documentary across the Atacama desert in the north of Chile. The jazz drummer Pedro Greene, founder of historical bands in the southern country, explores the landscape in an inspiring trip having encounters with the sacred and ritual sense of drums, its construction and the symbolic links with the sonority of the landscape.

Best Shortfilm at 2021 17º IN-EDIT, Chile (click here to watch a resume of the performance after the screening)
Part of the DOCShop Market of the Hotdocs films festival, april, Toronto, Canada 2023.
Selected in AluCine Latin films + Media arts Festival, october, Toronto, Canada 2023.

Screener available in Ondamedia.cl

Direction & Dop: Eduardo Bunster
Production: Claudia León
Concept: Tambores del Alma project, Pedro Greene, María Jose Concha.
Key words: Creative documentary, road trip, musical
Lenght: 18:23 mins.
Format: digital 4k
Locations: Chile (Atacama desert, Santiago, Algarrobo, Valparaiso)
Coproduction partners: Corporación Cultural CChC
Music composing: Pedro Greene y Andrés Pollak
Dop assist: José Miguel Miño
Sound: Peter Rosenthal
Production designer: María José Concha
Editing & color correction: Sound mix: Mascaró post
Trailer: Alvaro Solar
Poster design: Leo Camus

Eduardo Bunster, Director

Santiago, Chile, 1980

I have dedicated myself to film and photography since I was very young, first as a Photographer and later as Director of Photography and also Director in fiction, animation and documentary projects. I have collaborated with artists in their audiovisual works and participated in experimental works. I have had the opportunity to work in different parts of the world (India, Bangladesh, Japan, Turkey, Jordan, Canada, Colombia, Brazil and Bolivia, etc) and learn from the interaction with other cultures and narratives. I was co-founder and partner of the production company Quijote Films between 2008 and 2015, and currently I work as Director of Photography and Independent Director in projects in Chile and abroad.