Gaitán a casa

An old man pays a woman to live with him as if she were his wife, until one day he discovers that she's sleeping with his son.

A man, tired of technological advances and consumerism, decides to destroy his electrical appliances.

Produced by the National Institute of Cinematography in the National Short Film Competition, 1985.

With a very personal style, Marilyn Contardi, which will materialize in the films that will be made at the Film Workshop, tells the story of Santa Fe, and its laborious transfer to its current location.

The film tells how in 1970 a group of Argentine filmmakers - including Alberto Fischerman, Rafael Filippelli, Julio Ludueña, Miguel Bejo, Jorge Cedrón, Dody Scheuer and Luis Zanger - decided to make a short film each in one night. The occasion is perfect to describe the atmosphere of the '70s, the fever in which militants and publicists lived, the clash between art and politics. Includes fragments of the films The Players vs. Ángeles Caídos (Fischerman, 1969), Shadows (John Cassavetes, 1959), Made in U.S.A. (Jean-Luc Godard, 1966), L'eclisse (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1962), The Hour of the Furnaces (Pino Solanas & Octavio Getino, 1968), Tire dié (Fernando Birri, 1960), Alianza para el progreso (Ludueña, 1971), La civilización está haciendo masa y no deja oír (Ludueña, 1974) and La pieza de Franz (Fischerman, 1974).

Two men play chess while the city is in political and social turmoil. Short film made in Super 8 as part of the exercises of the film school of the UNL (Universidad Nacional del Litoral) in Santa Fe, Argentina.

Texts by Juan José Saer, paintings by Fernando Espino, music by Pedro Casis.

Documentary about the last year of Raul Alfonsin's presidency, marked by extreme political tensions.