Introduction
For the 34th edition of the Mar Del Plata Film Festival, held in November 2020, we decided to publish a book that would reflect on all the changes that had a major impact on the lives of people whose day-to-day...
The Seahorse
Translated from Spanish by César Albarrán-Torres
When we touch each other, we are a bit less of an image. That is the difference between images and living beings. We believe we can touch with our eyes when we ...
Wellman for the Win
Translated from the Argentinian Spanish by César Albarrán-Torres
During these past few months, the times of lockdown, the apparatus in charge of feeding cinephilia just crumbled. This space, which we can und...
¡Finland Albertina!
A couple of years ago, I had an audiovisual exhibit at Parque de la Memoria de Buenos Aires, a place that is dear to my heart because it represents, through that seemingly endless monument, the unanchored grief...
Two Letters from São Paulo
1st October, 2020
Dear Cecilia, Marcelo, Pablo and colleagues,
I hope that you are all doing all right.
Your invitation to send a reflection on the future of cinema got me thinking about how hard it of...
At the end of the day, I made a “film diary”
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The intensity of this pandemic jettisoned all my predictions regarding criticism and the way in which cinema is shared. I thought that the big theatres would close and thus, cinema would be reborn, or at lea...
Our Future Lies in the Past (and Archives Can Lend a Hand)
Translated from the Argentinean Spanish by César Albarrán-Torres
I believe that in part cinema’s future resides in its past. Nowadays everyone is talking about yet another irreversible crisis in the film in...
Plague Diary (March-October 2020)
Translated from Spanish by Gabriela Arenas
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Mid-March. After sharing a few days of joyful cinephilia in the city of Córdoba with friends from all over the world, quarantine restrictions are declared for th...
Unearthing Cinema, Learning to Breathe
Translated from the Argentinian Spanish by César Albarrán-Torres
The pandemic has had a very specific impact in cinema. At one point in its history – and it could have very well not been the case – cinema wa...
The 400 Cyborgs
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He was very tired. The solitude, after such a long time, had become a burden for him. Perhaps he was sick. The moxibustion session had gone from being an ancient technique connected to the acupuncture points...
Optimism
In the summer of 2021, I will buy a bike several kilos lighter than my present one. Every weekend, we will leave the city on the RegionalBahn, whose bicycle carriage will be almost empty. We will undertake leng...
History of Cinema
Translated from the Argentinian Spanish by Gabriella Munoz
We have done well
We revealed to the world the selenites, so fragile they turn to dust with one blow
we portrayed the workers
proudly marching ou...