In an audiovisual collage of nostalgia and magnetism, “Prelude to a Flash” fuses images from early cinema with elements of contemporary animation. It explores the tension between past and present through the edges, the traces that emerge from the representation of bodies in a sensory and emotional journey.
An atmospheric and dreamy picture poem from Argentina's vast La Pampa region, where ancient stories of spirits are evoked in dark and evocative images between reality and the beyond.
Based on an investigation of local botany, this film is an attempt to expand the possibilities of the archive. Under the cloak of cicadas, the plasticity of matter expands between poetic and philosophical reflections.
The weavers of western La Pampa invite us to their stalls, tell us about their lives and teach us about the tradition of wool craftsmanship.
Intimacy is outside. Animality roars with fury, its symptoms expand over a territory. The horizon traces the gesture of its inhabitants. In the bosom of the origin, suspended between a profane and a sacred dialectic, their ghosts restore a rhetorical dance. To inhabit time, to unfold space, tearing an image and assembling archives like a poet.
Neither the skin nor the filmic material is exempt from the temporal becoming and its consequent growing degradation. Both have such a fragile sensitivity that their potential for intervention seems to be infinitely finite, yet a common point seems to open a gulf between them: memory. However, one point in common seems to open an abyss between them: memory. How does dermatological memory operate? The photographic archive sends us back to vital mummification. Virtual skin and digital body exchange mails.
