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INSULA

By María ONIS

MARAVILLACINE - as PROD

Documentary - Completed 2019

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Visions du Réel 2019

BAFICI (Buenos Aires) 2019

- Year of production
- 2019
- Genres
- Documentary, Social issues, Art - Culture
- Countries
- ARGENTINA
- Languages
- SPANISH-ARGENTINE
- Director(s)
- María ONIS
- Writer(s)
- Laura AMDAN, María ONIS
- Cast
- María SOLDI, Francisco BENVENUTI, Fernando NOY, Naty MENSTRUAL, Andrea GARROTE
- Producer(s)
- Laura AMDAN, Paula ZYNGIERMAN (Maravillacine), María ONIS
- Synopsis
- A young couple is working on a documentary about the hunter-gatherer lifestyle of a Wichí
  community in the North of Argentina. She is an anthropology student and her boyfriend
  studies film. As they edit the footage, troubles arise regarding the conceptual framework and
  significance of the documentary. How should they portray this community for their urban
  audience? Should they cut out certain scenes, to satisfy their own aesthetic prejudice and
  symbolic interpretation of the depicted actions and situations? These issues come to light in
  a wide range of circumstances, from the most common clichés of intellectual correctness to
  humorous contradictions sprung from the methods of social analysis and meta-narratives of
  cinematographic devices. During these quarrels, both sides remain unable to escape their own
  contradictions, leading to conceptual loops or multiple possible answers. From their encounter
  with the community emerges a triangulation of universes that is characterized by as much
  isolation as proximity, representing their desire to understand and identify with the other, while
  still feeling that deep isolation.

INSULA

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