After living in Buenos Aires for a number of years, 25-year-old Ana returns to her small Argentinen hometown of Paraná. She is looking for her past but, once she arrives, she finds out that not much is left of it: only a few old friends and some insignificant images. One hot summer day, she walks down the streets and along the river, looking for spots that were once so familiar. She feels both at home and an outsider. In the local newspaper, she sees a photo taken by her ex-boyfriend Mariano. She asks all the old friends and classmates she meets about him. She finds out that Mariano lives in Victoria, a small town nearby. Ana decides to rent a car and embark on a new journey. An intimate portrait of a young woman looking for memories, places and people from her childhood.
An exotic documentary about seaside resorts and the foolish rituals practised by the tourists. Divided into four episodes, it is a curious and amusing insight about the summer vacation of the Argentinean. Four accounts that describe seaside resorts as majestic monuments of a lost civilization. These seaside resorts set up unconscious bodies swinging between two poles, full and empty, turning it into a succession of two kinds of images: one that irradiates the movements of its organs, another that reveals its skeleton. The two possible temporalities disable any capture of simultaneous wholes. From the crowd to solitude, seashore cities are placed on an oscillatory movement that varies between the urban and the popular spirit. As supreme leisure centres, seaside resorts allow this hilarious, ironic and satirical account.
A daring proposition. Porno-animation with Barbie dolls. An elaborate swich of partners. An anti-male-chauvinist tale, where all types of unorthodox sexualities unite to isolate a patriarch who tries to impose domination and all sorts of sadism as the only law.
He’s a bus driver. Carrying passengers from the outskirts to the city. He lives with his wife and their little dau-ghter, in a poor neighbourhood out in the suburbs. The relationships between him and his family is shallow: they live together as if they were strangers. His work gets him constantly in touch with the fringes of society. He gets involved with a series of exotic characters, that belong to a universe of dissolute lifestyles. Amongst them, a drug dealer, a prostitut and a group of people related to pornographic films. With them he shoots a blue film. But in each of the excesses he indulges himself in, his family ties will be put to the test ‚ until the arrival of the final decision.
Three characters, three generations, hree ways of living filial relationship. Dorotea, a beautiful, young 17-year-old woman, lives with Eugenia, her grandmother who is 100 and has her moments of madness. Every morning Dorotea washes her and combs her hair before going to work in a laundry. But there is also Eduardo, a weak man who has just left prison and now lives at the Salvation Army. Above all he is Dorotea’s father. Three generations, three lives at a crossroads with a desperate desire to be together.
There’s something exciting about seeing a pure affirmation of the grammar of the medium, if only because it appeals to the senses. Let’s honor this power of cinema once more.
Axel, aged about 40, is a doctor, but has given up practicing his profession. Instead, he lives with his sister and her children, leading a life without enthusiasm. Most of the time, he simply does nothing except existing. One day, however, he meets a young, pregnant woman. A relationship develops, a kind of love, and they live together, like driftwood temporarily clinging on to each other. But Axel’s movements are hesitant and soon he goes to visit an old lover. There are things that are not easily perceptible in human life, but which are deeply felt.
A suburban train station. A man in military overcoast is wandering in his own solitude. A train arrives, a woman and a heavy bag of flour appear on the plataform. A bus station in the mining area. An old bus is converted into a restaurant. The music is still on.
A filmed diary, pictures and sounds rescued from oblivion.
A day in the life of Misael, a young woodcutter in the Pampa. The camera follows him in his daily labor and his solitary hours of rest. Misael lives isolated from the rest of the world, living with the bare necessities in a tent, which he moves, little by little, as his work advances. He only visits the village to sell the wood he has cut and to make a phone call to a friend who gives him news of his mother. Night is falling, and the weather is getting worse. Yet, bleak though his life may seem, one cannot ignore the fact that Misael is a man freed from the constraints of the world, master of his own fate and seemingly content to live a life that is stripped to its very bare essentials: the dignity of work and the food of the land.
Don Galván is an 85 year old retired man. He lives in the suburbs in a humble house with his wife. One cold morning, he wakes up and discovers that his old kerosene heater has no wick. He tries to repair it but lacks the supply. Set for his goal he leaves to find the wick and starts a journey that will lead him to different people and situations. The world is no longer what Don Galván knew and that sole day will be enough to prove it. A neighbour leads him downtown Morón. A strange blend of Persian market and Hong Kong where Galván hopes to get his wick, that apparently is out of fabrication. He travels by bus, by taxi, in a delivery van. The wick is hard to find. Don Galván will cross the woods leading back home in the middle of a fierce storm.
Mao, a city girl in Buenos Aires, falls in love at first sight with Marcia. With Lenin, her loyal partner, she will do the impossible to prove her love till she gets to accomplish The Evidence.
T-shirt and music take the place of man and words.
Who were the Carri? How did they disappear? Blond, brown, tall, parents, revolutionaries, children, activists, heroes, or a fiction drawn by those who recall them? The director uses the camera to reveal actions based upon her parents emotional life, disappeared and murdered during the latest and brutal Argentinean dictatorship. Following the deceitful memory, Carri is able to get testemonies of old friends, old photographs, an actress that plays the director, funny Playmobil dolls and her own fantasies, and this is how she and her crew embark in a search through Buenos Aires’ geography and History, trying to understand what happened. As her parents story is revealed, from the most idealized succeedings to the mundanest, colorful perspectives emerge surrounded by certain conflicts. Impregnated by the myth of the gone, this family picture passes by each person who evokes them, by each image from the past, by each photograph faded by time and memory.
Rulo, who wears his age around his waist, hopes to get a job as a crane operator on a building site. He gets along somehow while his son lounges around between two gigs with his rock band. Rulo is a 50-year-old ex-bass player from a famous 1970’s rock group who now works as a crane operator. One day Rulo meets Adriana, a sandwich seller who used to be a big fan of his own band back in the sixties‚Ķ When a new laborer arrives on the scene and takes his job, Rulo is forced to leave Buenos Aires as well as his new love, Adriana, and his son Claudio, who hopes to follow in his father’s footsteps by forming a band of his own. Rulo’s stoutness eventually keeps him out of the crane job, forcing him to leave Buenos Aires for a precarious job 2000 kilometers south in Comodoro Rivadavia‚Ķ
Summer. It’s Christmas Eve. To live through the summer and impressing girls, three friends decide to buy a Chevy model 73 that later that night brakes. They try, unsuccessfully, to repair it but their popularity dreams soon fade away. Contradictory feelings like pride, sadness, power and frustration cross this coming of age story. As Carnival arrives the Chevy starts again. Mysteriously‚Ķ
A day in the life of a small shop of car supplies in the outskirts of Buenos Aires. Martin, the owner, and Rulo, his employee, face the trivial challenges of every day life : money, rats, romance and car crashes, in a handful of vignettes of daily routine.
Children and teachers having fun at school.
