Eternal Return

Machine Man is a documentary that explores memory through the encounter of two voices: that of the group Cabezas de Cera, which engages in a dialogue with the past through the musical accompaniment of the silent film “México Industrial,” and the voice of Don Rutilio, who, through oral accounts, constructs a memory of his life when he worked as a laborer at the Metepec Cotton Spinning, Weaving, and Finishing Factory, a film portrayed decades earlier by the group that currently provided the music.

2012: A family of Cité Balzac, a Paris's immigrant suburb, must leave the building where they live in before its impending demolition due to a political program of immigration control. Because of their different ages, their personalities and their diverse stories they do not feel the same way about this event. Between mirth, nostalgia, enthusiasm and indifference they are forced to move and their neighborhood disappears forever after few days.