José Luis Celeiro Rodríguez

"Mburucuyá" es el film póstumo de Jorge Acha, cuyo eje narrativo se centra en el viaje que emprendieron Alexander von Humboldt y Aimée Bonpland junto a tres indígenas por la cuenca del Orinoco y que quedara relatado en el libro del botánico alemán titulado Viaje a las regiones equinocciales del Ecuador.

Does someone remember that project of López Rega’s which, in 1975, thought up the construction of a Great Homeland Altar where all mythical figures of Argentine history could be in the same building? From San Martín to Perón on his pinto horse. From the Billiken stamps of our childhood to Libertad Leblanc’s tits of our teenage years. All clichés of Argentine-ness gathered under one roof. But the construction delays. Workers entertain themselves with their own masturbatory drives. Or is it that Argentina is an impossibie construction? Always about to begin. always displaying great projects, great plans that never come to fruition. A second-rate country that hides its fundamental vacuity behind monuments. in Acha’s cinema, second-rateness is exposed, shown in all its lying pomposity.

Experimental short film that shows four days in the life of a man clandestinely kept in captivity. The images of his naked body alternate with those of a happy moment on a beach and with those of his captor, who spends his time looking at bodybuilding magazines.