Home: a Cage

Home: a Cage

In the past there was no enclosure.

8 min · Documentary

To know you have to imagine. Perform an act of rhetorical detour to long something that was not known. To know you have to imagine the document. Not every documentary is a record alone without apparent alteration -that there is a camera already implies, after all, the alteration of a system of things-; Perhaps there would be another form of documentary closer to what was imagined, to the possibility of a document that would not exist otherwise.

Directed by Nicolás Zárate Denis · Written by Nicolás Zárate Denis

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