Mónica Lairana

In a world where technological progress is conceived as an arrow pointing forward, why do some people insist on continuing to work with equipment others refer to as obsolete? Analog Thinking answers that question by documenting the meticulous work of those who choose that path. The screen becomes filled with wonderful objects—optical toys, cameras, projectors, film stock cans, moviolas… And the testimonies from those creators invite us to discover a universe that has a lot to do with both craftsmanship and the collective experience—an instance of thinking with your hands that is only possible with curiosity and patience. And among the words, practices and artifacts, Analog Thinking also saves a place for the images that are born from all of that. And it reminds us that, even in this digital age, they still have a lot to teach us about waiting and making mistakes, surprise and beauty.

In a world where technological progress is conceived as an arrow pointing forward, why do some people insist on continuing to work with equipment others refer to as obsolete? Analog Thinking answers that question by documenting the meticulous work of those who choose that path. The screen becomes filled with wonderful objects—optical toys, cameras, projectors, film stock cans, moviolas… And the testimonies from those creators invite us to discover a universe that has a lot to do with both craftsmanship and the collective experience—an instance of thinking with your hands that is only possible with curiosity and patience. And among the words, practices and artifacts, Analog Thinking also saves a place for the images that are born from all of that. And it reminds us that, even in this digital age, they still have a lot to teach us about waiting and making mistakes, surprise and beauty.

A man steals his wife's diamond ring and sells it to buy a pinball. Three friends travel to the coast to buy a pinball but are scammed and receive unexpected help. A woman accidentally kills her lover, disposes of his body, and later learns that he might have diamonds on top of him. Three absurd stories of love and crime around the popular machines.

During a carnival, near the border between Argentina and Bolivia, a young Malambo dancer prepares for the most important competition of his life. When his ex-felon father returns, he jeopardizes everything by dragging his son into the criminal world.

In a house hidden in the middle of the jungle, a clairvoyant is visited by three strangers who ask for her help in invoking an ancestor at a séance. This unwanted encounter soon turns into a nightmare.

A documentary about the Costanera Sur (south boardwalk) of Buenos Aires, Argentina, including Super 8 filmmakers, conspiracies, choripanes and myths.

A hot summer weekend in Buenos Aires. Jorge and Mabel spend their last hours together as a couple in their family home that has already been sold.

A hot summer weekend in Buenos Aires. Jorge and Mabel spend their last hours together as a couple in their family home that has already been sold.

A humble housewife becomes an assassin for money, gaining self-confidence and rebuilding her life.

The omnibus feature SUCESOS INTERVENIDOS consists of shorts by a who’s who of Argentine documentary and experimental-film giants, including Edgardo Cozarinsky and Gustavo Fontán but also Claudio Caldini, Andrés Di Tella and Gabriela Golder. Each one of them created a piece of a few minutes in length using archival footage from SUCESOS ARGENTINOS (“Argentine Events”), a popular newsreel series from 1938 to 1972 whose episodes have recently begun to be digitized by Buenos Aires’s “Pablo C. Ducrós Hicken” Film Museum.

This incredibly disturbing story follows the exploitation of an apprentice butcher, Hermógenes, and his trial after he murders his boss in broad daylight. Hermógenes, a farmhand from northern Argentina, relocates to Buenos Aires in search of a better life for himself and his young wife, but soon finds himself at the mercy of a corrupt boss. The film is based on a thorough investigation of a real event that happened in Buenos Aires 10 years ago. Almost every scene in the film is inspired by real facts or based on well documented daily practices of the “meat business” and its environment. Both a shocking exposé of unscrupulous practices in the meat industry and a heart-wrenching personal story, El Patrón became one of the most successful Argentine films of 2014.

The full weight of someone Else's flesh squashes Maria' s inert body.

The full weight of someone Else's flesh squashes Maria' s inert body.

The full weight of someone Else's flesh squashes Maria' s inert body.

Four friends live together in an abandoned house, wearied by the tedium of knowing that their lives will be tomorrow the same as today, a year from now the same as tomorrow, a century from now the same as a year from now. Being eternal was their sentence.

Four friends live together in an abandoned house, wearied by the tedium of knowing that their lives will be tomorrow the same as today, a year from now the same as tomorrow, a century from now the same as a year from now. Being eternal was their sentence.

The arrival of a stranger -a thief running away from his accomplices- alters the routine of a big and solitary house in the Parana river delta inhabited by two women. That man carries a somber past behind him and moves towards an equally loo-my destiny. A film noir in a jungly landscape, with a dark and dense atmosphere.

Amidst the political crisis of December 2001 in Argentina, Clara observes the relationship troubles of her cousin Mara with her boyfriend Tomás. Their sexual bonds are about to undergo some changes as well.

Biguá, a port worker, awaits a son with his young girlfriend and embarks on the high seas. Javier, at 40 years old, has a wife he loves, works, enjoys a good time; and imagines recurring dreams. Another life, with another being very different, they cross as in a magical and mysterious dream. The film revisits the theme of the double and its question: will there be, somewhere in the world, a double for each one of us? And, if it exists, what would happen if we took their life?

A woman, a mountain, a nightmare.

On the boardwalk in Havana floats the cloud of uncertainties of an abandoned woman.

The path of a man to restart his life after a personal tragedy that leads him to leave the city and move to an inhospitable place that allows him to be reborn.

Visions and nightmares of a woman who escapes her own shadow.

Felix, a 21-year-old loner and drifter who seeks a way of life comes to a humble village entrerriano and work relationship with a man who after losing his job while you earn a living selling fruit, candy and canned prepared by his wife. The man takes his camper, which may help in exchange for food and a corner to sleep. As the days pass, tried to identify the bitter resentment of man, the quiet submission of his wife, discontent and violence undercover tense atmosphere. Also living there Chango, a baby a year and a half, unattended, which awakens in him the illusion of paternity until he is kidnapped and flees taking him to Buenos Aires.