Completed - SPANISH - Documentary - 100 minutes
This rigorously structured and visually engrossing essay film explores Argentina's fractious modern history through the words of writers - both founding fathers and oppositional voices - who lay buried in Buenos Aires's famed Recoleta Cemetery.
Year of production : 2011 Director(s) : Nicolás PRIVIDERA Writer(s) : Nicolas PRIVIDERA Cast : Alejandro TANTANIAN, Emilio GARCIA WEHBI, Maricel ALVAREZ, Martin KOHAN Producer(s) : Pablo RATTO (Trivial Media)
As a poem-essay, the film narrates the continually and repeated confrontation of two versions of history: the winner’s and the vanquisher’s. And it does it in a location, that it is at the same time concrete and symbolic: Buenos Aires’ oldest cemetery. By reading quotations by the tombs, the film creates a sort of "dialogue of the dead", and narrates the history in chronological order (from Nineteenth Century’ Civil Wars to Twentieth Century Dictatorships). This dramatic structure realize that the official history was built on the identification of The Other (Indian, Gaucho, Immigrants, "Subversive") to recognize him as an enemy who must be killed for the good of the country.
Country(ies) : ARGENTINA
Toronto - TIFF 2011 City to City