Espacio Santafesino

A version of El Estatola del Campo's poetic Faust of the Poet (1886) integrates the major trilogy of Argentine gaucho poetry, is proposed here in a faithful version and integral.

In 1936, in Cayastá, Aparicio Garay, a strange inhabitant of the islands, brutally murders an 11-year-old boy, and commits an act of cannibalism following the orders of his God, “El Hora”.

Huashi, a young Qom woman, is sent to the Rokshelashé palace to bring a message on behalf of her community: tired of the oppression generated by the industry, the natives demand an end to clearing and reclaim their traditional food and medicine. Her arrival at the palace will shake the world of Benedicta, a maid who grew up there since she was little, far from her origins, and will open questions about her true identity.

Santa Fe - notes, 2017 - 2019 is a story made up of fragments of landscapes, buildings, voices and objects. It is a film built on the relationship between art and the colony, memory and threat, native peoples and silence.