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Esquirlas

Splinters
Natalia Garayalde
Argentinien 2020
70 min
OmeU
V'21

Als die Militärfabrik in Río Tercero in Argentinien am 3. November 1995 explodiert, dokumentiert die zwölfjährige Natalia alles mit einer Videokamera. Granatsplitter und Chemiewolken zerstören ihre Heimatstadt, in der Folge sterben viele an Krebs, auch Natalias Vater und eine ihrer Schwestern.
20 Jahre später fügt die Filmemacherin die damaligen Aufnahmen mit weiteren Amateurvideos und Fernseharchivmaterial zusammen und deckt im Wiederbefragen der alten Bilder die Skrupellosigkeit auf, mit der die Regierung von Carlos Menem damals ihre illegalen Waffengeschäfte vertuschte. So wird aus einem scheinbar privaten Homemovie ein mutiger politischer Akt. (Maria Marchetta)

In Anwesenheit von Natalia Garayalde und Eva Cáceres (Produzentin).

It seemed like a bombing on the Gaza Strip, a scene of terror that we imagine as being characteristic of faraway countries. Yet this was an incident took place in an Argentine city in the province of Córdoba in 1995: an explosion in a military arms factory that had devastating consequences. There was debris and dust, there were wounded people and corpses, and, with the passing of time, there was the perpetuation of trauma and illness.
No one in the small city of Río Tercero has ever forgotten that fateful day, but director Natalia Garayalde finds an intimate perspective on this collective memory by focusing upon a single painful family history, thus intensifying its universal emotional force and adding political foresight.
All memory is invariably a labor of montage. And it is exactly this detailed work on these scattered memories that comes into play as all the material filmed by the members of this serious amateur filmmaking family is reorganized, whether from before or after this episode, acquiring decades later an additional layer of truth and bringing the force of the past into the present in order to understand how one can film a feeling. (Roger Koza)

In the presence of Natalia Garayalde and Eva Cáceres (producer).

Natalia Garayalde: ESQUIRLAS (2020)

Credits
  • Esteban Garayalde
  • Nicolás Garayalde
  • Ester Rostagno
  • Gabriela Garayalde
  • Carolina Garayalde
  • Natalia Garayalde
  • Federico Disandro
  • Julieta Seco
  • Martín Sappia
Punto de Fuga Cine

Punto de Fuga Cine

DCP
Farbe/SW
Sa. 30 Okt
21:00
Stadtkino im Künstlerhaus
OmeU
iCal
So. 31 Okt
18:30
Filmmuseum
OmeU
iCal
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