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| Director: | Eduardo Williams |
| Editing: | Eduardo Williams |
| Runtime: | 121 minutes |
The Human Surge 3 (Spanish; Castilian: El auge del humano 3) is a 2023 experimental film written and directed by Argentine filmmaker Eduardo Williams. It is a loose sequel to his 2016 film The Human Surge.
Filming for The Human Surge 3 took place in multiple countries, particularly in Sri Lanka, Peru, and Taiwan. The film has a cast of nonprofessional actors, many of whom are LGBTI people. They were cast from residents close to the shooting locations except in Sri Lanka, where a more widespread search was needed to recruit LGBTI performers.[1]
After The Human Surge, Williams had made the 2019 short film Parsi, which was shot on a GoPro 360 and edited with a virtual reality headset. The Human Surge 3 was shot on an Insta360 Titan, a 360° spherical camera.[1]
The Human Surge 3 premiered at the 76th Locarno Film Festival.[2]
For Variety magazine, J. Kim Murphy wrote that although the film "provides itself the space to wander and arrive at new insights, the detachment can sometimes come across as a restraint that betrays an overall adventurous spirit."[3] Slant Magazine reviewer David Robb described it as "a bold deconstruction of the cinema image, an ayahuasca-inflected study of globalization, and a mind-numbing work of video art juiced up with haphazard technical gimmickry".[4] In a review for Filmmaker magazine, Vadim Rizov remarked that the film was "Williams's first film recapitulating prior work rather than discovering new modes, but to be fair, Surge 3 is unsurprising primarily in relation to his own self-created universe."[5]