STRAIGHT TO VHS

DIRECTAMENTE PARA VIDEO

By Emilio SILVA TORRES

TARKIOFILM - as PROD

Thriller - Completed 2021

The search for the ghost that filmed the enigmatic and unique cult film of Uruguayan cinema. A film that looks like a fake documentary, but it is not.

Festivals
& Awards

BAFICI (Buenos Aires) 2021
American Official Competition
    • Year of production
    • 2021
    • Genres
    • Thriller, Documentary, First film
    • Countries
    • URUGUAY, ARGENTINA
    • Languages
    • SPANISH
    • Duration
    • 76 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Emilio SILVA TORRES
    • Producer(s)
    • Virginia BOGLIOLO (TARKIOFILM), Juan ALVAREZ NEME (TARKIOFILM)
    • Synopsis
    • "Act of Violence in a Young Journalist" is a film shot and released on VHS in 1989. A mysterious cult work of Uruguayan cinema surrounded by strange theories about its creator, Manuel Lamas, about whom nothing is known.
      The documentary sets out to unveil the enigma that exists about Lamas and his work, chasing the traces of a ghost through his lost VHS cassettes. Along the way, the director becomes involved in a spiral that dissolves the boundaries between reality and fiction.