Cinematography
Preparing for a role, an actress holds conversations with pregnant young girls. Throughout the process, the girls lay out the stories of their own lives on camera, changing the course of the production of the film.
Director
After having shared a common experience in Cuba, twelve filmmakers say goodbye to return to their countries and make a pact: to make a collective film that answers the questions: what does it mean to plagiarize images and how to do it in the distance? The mechanism is unusual: a director makes a short and sends it to the next director, who in turn makes his own short for the purpose of plagiarizing the one he received. And so the chain of plagiarism continues until it reaches the last one. Each one interprets in their own way what it means to plagiarize the received film. The first link in the chain is James Benning, one of the world's most patient filmmakers. His extensive plans are replicated in the following fragments. Disobedience moves the exercise away from literality and an exploration of the texture of the images begins. In its repetitive mechanism, we can see that cinema is, in addition to record of reality, an art of images and sound. (Santiago González Cragnolino)
Director
Esta brevísima evocación de un popular recinto recreativo en Santo Domingo, en las orillas del Caribe, permite pensar cómo y cuándo una foto deviene en fotograma y evita, además, una condición intermedia, la de la diapositiva. Los planos fijos del film son fotos fijas que se van sucediendo y en las que se puede observar a los transeúntes que visitan ese espacio de todos para pasar un rato, ver el mar, comer algo al paso, descansar y jugar. Las fotos en blanco y negro ostentan el rigor del encuadre, pero no serían más que fotos si no fuera por la irrupción sonora que desconoce el corte y propone movimiento y sucesión en el propio sonido sostenido, conjurando así la inmovilidad de la foto y dinamizando la intersección del plano sonoro y el visual, en una especie de sistema de relevos en el que el sonido y la imagen se necesitan sin renunciar a la autonomía que los define inicialmente. Roger Koza
Director
A letter to a loved one from abroad. The reaction to a piece of news and the doubts generated by it in the filmmaker lead him to compile images and sounds, questioning memory and poor communication.
Director
An essay on time, the perception of time. An invitation to slow down. A small mirror that allows us to see details but never a complete image of who we really are.
