Las Ratas

The voices of the family house of the Peyrano's are revived by the grandson as he revisits past and present of their deserted town.

Favio Navoni was a disruptive photographer who could capture his art anywhere. But at the peak of his youth, he broke, and was never able to be the same again. His family tells us who he was and what it is like to live today with the absence of someone who was once so full of life.

Using re-appropriated foreign archival footage, a poem takes shape like the waves of a sea, engaging in dialogue with the dead and the living. A cinematic spell is unleashed, delving into exile. Foreignness. Longing. What does it mean to be a grandson and a grandfather? To love from afar?