Aquí se construye, o, Ya no existe el lugar donde nací = Under construction, or, The place I was born no longer exists / un film de Ignacio Agüero ; producción y asistencia de dirección, Francisca Alburquerque ; una production, Ignacio Agüero & Asoc.

[Brooklyn, New York] : [Distributed by] Icarus Films, [2000]

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In the Providencia Barrio of Santiago, Chile, a neighbor lives through the demolition of the house next door and the construction of a building in the same place, over a two-year period. This film is about the passing of time and the transformation of a space where minor and major events occur: a death and a birth; neighborhoods disappearing; buildings being demolished and built; winters and springs passing. In the end, when the building is finished, the protagonist looks up at his new neighbors, while they look down at him from their balcony: evidence of a space (and a past) that they now control.

Images / Online / Video & Film

Spanish

April 14, 2022

Photography and camera, Inti Briones, Víctor Jiménez ; editor, Sophie França ; music, Arvo Pärt.

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