Pablo Pintor

In August 1999, a group of friends began a trip through the Argentine northwest aboard a mobile home. His initial goal was to screen films for free in small towns over 3,000 kilometers. An extreme and contradictory country comes out to meet him. Kilometer by kilometer, the original certainties become more and more diffuse. During his last screening something happens. The course is totally lost.

Rodolfo and Leticia are staying at the same hotel, in adjacent rooms separated by a closed-down door. He has doubts about what to do. Finally, he leaves, and while Leticia sees him walk away, she remembers the moments in which she hoped he would approach her.

Citizen in trance is a mixture of documentary observation and experimentation. The film humorously portrays a whole gallery of characters, objects or humans, who parade through the city. Little by little a secret story is emerging, a melodrama taken from an old radio drama that only the mannequins in their shop windows know: as in any tragedy, death will be inevitable. An unusual and ironic documentary where the montage of images “stolen” from the street pay homage to the anti-heroes of the city.