The Clowns tells the story of three aspiring artists who fly to Brazil to present their short at the World Short Film Cup.
One would think at first that it is a Road movie, which will deal with the characters' journey to the festival, however, they soon collide with reality and we found that the short film was not good enough, it was not well understood and it remains Eliminated in the first round, the intention to make a documentary about the journey to glory collapses. And other kinds of questions arise like what is the reason we do this? , questions that every artist at the moment when life does not work the way they want, asks that question. Once they are eliminated from the tournament, they decide to continue filming their adventures throughout Brazil, without much to think about, film for film, to try to compensate for the disappointment.
The trip ends and the disappointment remains, they could never finish the film / documentary that they recorded about the trip nor did they find the end of the documentary, they had many hours of recording, but without knowing what to do with them.
It takes 3 years to close his project, and in that time, one of the actors in the film has already progressed as an artist, is famous and knows where he is and where he is going.
Instead, the directors of the documentary still do not know what to do, this is where they look for editors to make a good montage and give an end to their film, and they realize that the best way to end it is to call Jero.
It is a film that talks about the concerns and challenges involved in working in audiovisual production, about all the problems that arise and about how far is the dream of every filmmaker to have his work recognized. At the same time that the barrier between documentary and fiction is not entirely clear, one of the editors very well defines the latter, if this were fiction as the viewer would know?, It is not entirely clear if the short was made in truth or if it is all part of the script of the story, it could be a false documentary, a docu fiction.
It is worth saying that this tension between fiction-reality is already raised from the short film itself. Within the short, there are two clowns. One played by Jero Freixas and the other when seeing but we do not know in depth anything of the life of who interprets it. Throughout the film itself, we will witness two "clowns" (perfect terms for their tragicomic sense) who will wander aimlessly. One of them, Jero Freixas, will be the unrecognized protagonist. The entertainer. The funny We know your workplace, we know you are with your partner and we can differentiate you from the rest. The director of his partner, Lucas Bucci, knows nothing of his personal life.
The clowns is a highly recommended film for all the people who faced the risks of making their projects recognized and who failed, however, in this failure, the clowns find a story to tell.
That, perhaps, is the best decision of the film as soon as it will face the dream with the reality, abandoning all epic to the defeatism and going to concentrate on what really matters, what are we going to do this? What have we come to say? What have we come to show? What is this fascination with fame? ", A huge series of existential questions that are awakened and that can sometimes become answers because they exceed the human being. They almost expose the artist's dichotomy: Do, think, do or think, think while doing, ask while doing think, all at once.
