Ignacio Lopardo

Observations of two filmmakers (or how to start filming a new space). A work of mise-en-scène in two gazes, on an empty space that never stops moving.

Shapovalov decides not to deal with Navrátilová in the stolen Mona Lisa business, so he captures her to collect the reward. The Russian finds a way to escape, entering a path of fights that can only leave one of the two standing.

The daughter of a prestigious architect ruins his plans by spilling a cup of coffee

A teenager gets dumped over text messages. Saddened, he skips school. On walks that morning he finds a hat, some car keys, a band, but he also seems to find something else.

“Search for Immortality”is a book divided into three chapters with 128 pages. But it is also 3,420 frames, filmed at 18 frames per second with a Bolex H16 Rex, in 16mm. Perhaps the search for immortality is precisely that: an attempt to capture a totality, at once impossible and fragmentary. And to fail.

On 10 December 2024, at around two o’clock in the afternoon, a homeless man immerses himself in a lake in a Buenos Aires park and disappears. From this news item, the filmmaker reflects on the films that will never be made and those that may still be possible.

Louis Daguerre invented the image, Louis Lumière was the first filmmaker. The rest is language.