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Completed - SPANISH - Documentary, Comedy, First film - 85 minutes

Log Line

A young couple is making a documentary about an aboriginal community in Argentina. In the process of editing the film, important conceptual differences arise between them, forcing them to question and reassess the meaning of their work.

Year of production : 2019

Director(s) : María ONIS
Writer(s) : Laura AMDAN, Maria ONIS
Cast : Francisco BENVENUTTI, María SOLDI

Producer(s) : Laura AMDAN (LAURA AMDAN), Maria ONIS

Synopsis

A young couple is working on a documentary about the hunter-gatherer lifestyle of a Wichí community in the North of Argentina. She is an anthropology student and her boyfriend studies film. As they edit the footage, troubles arise regarding the conceptual framework and significance of the documentary. How should they portray this community for their urban audience? Should they cut out certain scenes, to satisfy their own aesthetic prejudice and symbolic interpretation of the depicted actions and situations? These issues come to light in a wide range of circumstances, from the most common clichés of intellectual correctness to humorous contradictions sprung from the methods of social analysis and meta-narratives of cinematographic devices. During these quarrels, both sides remain unable to escape their own contradictions, leading to conceptual loops or multiple possible answers. From their encounter with the community emerges a triangulation of universes that is characterized by as much isolation as proximity, representing their desire to understand and identify with the other, while still feeling that deep isolation.

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Country(ies) : ARGENTINA

Festivals and Awards

Visions du Réel 2019 (Burning Lights)
BAFICI (Buenos Aires) 2019 (Competencia Argentina)


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