Juan Manuel de Rosas: El Restaurador

Blood is a family portrait. A mother, her two children and the shadow of her husband who died 25 years ago under strange circumstances.

In 1971, the graphic and advertising artist Juan Fresán set out to film the story of Orélie Antoine de Tounens, the delirious Frenchman who 100 years earlier had proclaimed himself ‘King of Patagonia and Araucanía’, with his own constitution, currency and ministers. The film, titled "New France," was left unfinished, first due to lack of funds and then because its author had to go into exile. If the story is familiar to many today, this is because in the '80s Carlos Sorín made' The King's movie ', inspired by that frustrated shoot, in which he had worked as a cinematographer. In 2004, Fresán contacted Turturro to help him rescue the preserved film. Fresán died in that same year, but Turturro decided to retake the trace of that truncated film, exhuming unpublished materials, returning to their original settings and gathering testimonies, to illuminate the two stories - one within the other - that make up this true story, more strange and fascinating than any fiction.

One mother, two sisters that make each other jealous, and a visitor whose presence upsets the home’s precarious system until he is taken by storm, enveloped in his own astonishment.

“The grid of squares works like memory. We have clear memories, fuzzy memories, and some non-memories.” With this simple statement, the plastic artist Jorge González Perrin tirelessly begins to explain to anyone who wants to listen, the technique he developed together with the Arte Memoria collective.

As part of the Bicentennial celebrations, the initiative and perseverance of Diego and Muriel, two young idealists, manage to transform into an unprecedented project: the creation of a choir of 1,800 school children of all faiths (Christian, Jewish, Muslim, evangelists, secularists), different communities (Armenian, Turkish, Galician, Basque) and all social classes.

The 2X1 ruling, a controversial Supreme Court ruling to benefit the genocidaires of the last Civic-Military Dictatorship, provoked a massive popular mobilization that put a stop to this attempt to grant impunity to those responsible for state terrorism in Argentina.