El canto de los pajaros

A photographer works with different images of his territory and wonders about the landscapes and relationships between the Patagonian steppe’s people, institutions, and wildlife.

An e-mail and a found book are taken as evidence for an investigation: through analysis from a forensic software a relationship between what is built by humans and the spread of a virus is sought. What is the secret relationship between stones and pixels?

One more vacation that Lucía spends in San Bernardo. At eleven, this desolate coastal town does not seem to be the best plan in the midst of a family crisis. However, the breakdown in her family and that seemingly empty environment push Lucía to discover herself.

A ship is shipwrecked on a desert island in the Río de la Plata. One of the crew, without name or age, wanders through the ruins of a city project that was not. The voices of the original spirits guide him through the territory, making the formation of the Argentine State emerge from the shadows, in the years of the Conquest of the Desert. How to find in the roots of the trees the memory of a place?

“Rosa, why do we look at the sky so much?” Irineo asks his wife. The clay-rich mountains of the Chuquiago Valley, on the slopes of the city of La Paz, Bolivia, are transformed into bricks every day. Grinding, mixing, pressing, drying, and firing are some of the tasks Rosa and Irineo carry out as part of their daily routine making gambote, a particular type of brick. As they work, we share in the intimacy of their everyday lives. A portrait of an ancient craft and of the importance of looking at the sky.

Faced with the death of a comrade, the workers of Line 60 look for lessons in past struggles in order to confront the boss once again. Santiago, one of them, reviews in his chronicles the pages of the last triumph in order to write his story: that of a collective of combative workers.

Triggered by a dream, and through the use of photos, 3D animation and refined sound design, this moving first-person work evokes the relationship between Argentinian state policy—in the wake of the wave of privatization in the 1990s—and the death of a young father, a worker dismissed from the state-owned gas company.