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Los cipreses

Three stories running simultaneous, shot without hiding the cameras, portray the private life of nine characters who are spending the Christmas holidays in Los Cipreses, a fictitious town located in Argentina. One hand there's Artemisa, who returns to Los Cipreses in order to rent a room in the house where she was born, where now lives a gay couple in crisis. On the other hand, there's Esteban, who has an atypical relationship with his sister. Esteban's father, a frustrated actor, is excited about the idea of turning his son into a great artist. And last of all there's Andrea, who is solving a separation by phone while she tries to enjoy the holidays with her little daughter, at the house of her quite unbearable mother.

Los cipreses

NR 2012
Inventory

135.072 frames form the audiovisual inventory of a life edited by the images. This documentary made of archival material explores what lies at the edges of the frames, what rests in the middle of the cuts, what the out of focus and the low definition hide, what stereotypes and codes veils. They are images produced over the last ten years by me and other filmmakers to superficially portrait the forced disappearance of Irina and the political activism of her mother, Blanca Díaz. I wanted to make this inventory, to classify these images, to re-edit them, in order to unveil what they are hiding, to dismantle their regime and to understand how they have crossed Blanca’s life; how to build a life that has been edited by the images.

Inventory

NR 2019
El Puma de Quelepa

Filmed in stunning black and white, this immersive dive into the the lives of of the people of Quelepa, El Salvador feels as if a young Carlos Reygadas (SILENT LIGHT, POST TENEBRAS LUX) worked with Harvard’s Sensory Ethnography Lab to create an experimental slice of life that’s as vibrant as it is enigmatic. As we spend time with our central character, we slowly peel back the layers of his daily life and experiences catching glimpses of the people around him in this small mountain village teeming with history.

El Puma de Quelepa

2.0 2017
Transparent Hero

The life of General Victoriano Lorenzo, of indigenous descent, guerrilla fighter from the One Thousand Day War, shot by a firing squad of the oligarchy before the birth of Panama as a Republic and the building of the Canal by the North Americans in 1903, is reconstructed through several characters who know his history, life and myth. An indigenous painter, an indigenous chief, a peasant, a violinist, a singer of rhymes and a former guerrilla fighter talk to us about the life of our Transparent Hero, as we delve into their worlds of daily struggle in a country that is proud of its economic growth and gradually seeks to eliminate the memory of its people. These are stories that are weaved to highlight the figure of Victoriano Lorenzo through the imagination that creates time in the self-image of Panamanians amidst memories, versions and contradictions.

Transparent Hero

NR 2014
Le rêve est fini

In a dense interrelation between intimate diary, cinema essay and anthropologic film, this film connects past and present, European policies for the management of migration flows to the history of the last colonialism campaign in Northern Africa, setting its point of view with an urgency that is opposed to any emergency rhetoric. Written words, voices, images are saved from the waters of oblivion, and linked together building a story that is incredibly short and, at the same time, tragically deep.

Le rêve est fini

NR 2014