Film «Eephus» by Carson Lund

On 4 June, at Centro Cultural Conde Duque, the final chord of the cinema programme: the screening of a film dedicated to the places where we were once happy.

«Eephus» is the debut by Carson Lund, a Cannes participant and one of the most interesting directors in the new wave of American independent cinema. All the action takes place over one day in an abandoned New England stadium, where the final amateur match is played. The following morning, the stadium is demolished.

There is no need to know the rules of baseball; the film works with what escapes them: gestures, rhythm, space. It is a subtle and choreographed farewell scene to a passing American world: rural, masculine, almost mythological.

Restrained, ironic, visually inventive, «Eephus» captures disappearance, the moment frozen between the last adventure and silence.