Medical History

A short film documenting Ethiopian musician Hailu Mergia's life as the leader of the Walias Band in the 1970, his immigration to the United States and his subsequent re-emergence as a performer in 2014.

A bilingual documentary essay about the construction and illusions of American identity from an intimate, biographical and anecdotal perspective." I was born in New York City, a Jew from Queens, raised in the 1970s and 80s, the child of another New York Jew born in 1919, the child of immigrants from the Ukraine. When I became a father myself, I was gripped by the need to share this inheritance of identity with my daughters. But my daughters were born in Buenos Aires where I have been living since 2002.” Richard Shpuntoff

A vision from Limbo, where the canoeist of the eternal lake floats in his boat, between sleep and wakefulness. When he sleeps, he dreams of the everyday of a parallel time. when he wakes up, the same song haunts him again and again. his boat, “ara” (time, in guarani) travels through time like a shooting star.

Influenced by the sound of the city, different artists improvise ephemeral pieces that dance between music and what is typically considered to be “noise.” Different sonorous and visual textures converge in this documentary about the creation of experimental music in Buenos Aires.

At the end of the 1960s, Argentine artist Leandro Katz participated in “Theatre of the Ridiculous”, an eccentric group linked to New York’s queer underground. This film-essay moves between archives, testimonies, and spectres of the past that question the present. Photography, film, video, and sound intertwine to approach, if only in brief flashes, that mythical past and raise questions about time, art, sexuality, death, and cinema.

"The sensitivity allows human beings to unite and connect through sympathy and relationships, as a fine layer that perceives and decodes non-verbal impressions; in other words, allows them to return to a nonspecific and uncoded state in which bodies vibrate in unison." (the8fest)

40 years after the return of democracy in Argentina, Lucas, Sonia, Tália, Iván, Nadia, Damián and Bruno meet to record stories about their childhoods in dictatorship.