Joaquín Maito

The Antes Muerto Cine collective presents an episodic film about nature, technology, politics, violence and affection; about times past and times to come, from the noisy, angry, rebellious present. Rather be dead than policemen, than defeated, than...

The filmmaker decides to make a film in an attempt to remember a dream from his notes: at the crossroads of essay and diary, the film offers a sensitive investigation into the relationship between dreams, animals and the city.

One day, I found a box in the trash with super 8 cartridges and a book entitled “Catalog”. The images could be from a cameraman of the past or the future. What would happen if someone found my life in a SD card in a pawnshop? What would my catalog of images contain? Cities, nature and a diary of a digital memory.

Two women, granddaughter and grandmother, discuss the stories and contradictions of our gender and class, while sewing. Outside, a new generation of feminists takes the streets.

What is it like to produce images in 2020 while blind? Zezé Fassmor is a Peruvian multidisciplinary artist living in Buenos Aires: "I do everything but see", says his biography on the social networks he uses. He lost his sight at the age of 25 and today, at 32 and with the idea of seeing again, he films and takes photos, creating his own archive to see those images in the future. We travelled to the Iguazú Falls, exploring the geography of the senses to film another scene from his imagination. What is an image? What we see or what we have in our mind?

"Owner's Portrait" is a documentary fable, with an atmosphere of science fiction: on a remote island, where there are no more humans or money left, lives a community of cats that transmits a libertarian message. The antennas propagate it throughout the planet and are the dogs the first to hear it. Meanwhile, workers lose their lives working in the factory. The animals escape from their homes and the owners go looking for them. In the streets they hear the voices of past revolutions and wonder if a new world can grow at this moment.

There is a house being emptied. There is an auction in the neighborhood of Flores. Clients fill the place, eager to buy all kinds of objects. There is almost no filter when fighting to get the best price that belongs to the dead, the exiles, the fugitives and the soulless. A reseller who is too preoccupied with the staging, a collector with a past as a fishing worker, and the owner of an antique shop that admits to selling the affections of people, hints at the state of things.

An amateur archaeologist obsessed with e-waste records images and sounds over ten years. His research takes the form of a personal, playful and musical diary, crossing borders and archives. One day, he arrives at an electronic recycling workshop where the ghost of a working poet manifests itself. The search takes an unexpected turn and he sets out, in the company of his cat Pendrive, to explore the links between technology and memory. In times of environmental crisis, overproduction and acceleration of consumption, he wonders: how will history be written in the future?

A look back at the murder of a teenager by the Buenos Aires police, through the words of his mother and her obsessive observation of the place of his forced disappearance.

A lonely archive worker’s monotonous routine gives way to hallucinations that spiral from sensuality into paranoia, as a deadly presence begins to hunt her through the corridors.