Three meetings. Two men. A rumbling volcano.
Herculanum (2016)
Herculanum begins with a man anxiously looking at his phone outside the apartment of man, who we learn, he is meeting for the first time. It may not be entirely obvious but it’s clear from conversations about online profiles that this is an encounter initiated through a modern dating app. Writer/Director/Actor/Editor Arthur Cahn explores, through a simple premise, the beginning of a romance.
Herculanum is as much about the space between words as it is the words themselves. I spoke to Arthur Cahn about his multi-role production process whilst Herculanum was playing at this year’s BFI Flare film festival.
Arthur Cahn is a French director and actor known for the shorts THE RAPTURES (2012), DINOSAURS IN THE DISTANCE (2015) and HERCULANUM (2016), Telerama Press Prize at the Clermont-Ferrand ISFF.
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