Producer
A voice that claims to be from a hippopotamus. A voice that doesn’t understand the perception of time. Pepe, the first and last hippo killed in the Americas, tells his story with the overwhelming orality of these towns.
In 1997 the Argentine filmmaker Fernando Birri returned to his home country to film a documentary on the 30th anniversary of the death of Che Guevara and the relevance of utopias at that time. Carmen Guarini decided to record those moments. A rough edit of this film was hidden away on a fragile VHS tape for twenty years. Today, these images come to life and shed some light on the life of this Latin American poet and master filmmaker, who, at the age of 92, still refused to give up on his own utopias.
Associate Producer
Breath is a creative documentary about human existence and the mysteries of life and death, seen in the everyday life of a small village in the middle of nowhere, in the countryside of Brazil, where families have lived for years, almost completely isolated from contact with the outside world. Wind, dust, mountains, silence and time… Man and nature live together there in both harmony and conflict, amidst what is and what could be, in the vastness of a landscape grander than vision can grasp.
Thanks
Rafael, anciano mayordomo de una casona en decadencia, vive en ella junto a su patrón. Sus labores cotidianas resumen una vida anclada a un glorioso pasado. Estas acciones son la única manera de sustentar aquel espacio de vidas postradas en la memoria. Con el ocaso, Rafael se verá desposeído de su lugar y su propia historia y tendrá que emprender un viaje incierto. (FILMAFFINITY)