Can we foil human hubris and put a stop to relentless growth? How to resist urban alienation and preserve affective ties? The five films selected for this program, all completed between 2022 and 2023 as part of the Atelier 105 residency program, engage with these concerns by proposing a range of perspectives and strategies – from a contemplative, dystopian or even post-apocalyptic stance, to flânerie and the creation of informal networks situated on the fringes of urban centers and based on curiosity and play.

Ten experimental films made in Argentina throughout the last ten years. From epistolary exchanges to historical memory, from the structural analysis of a place to its hallucinated revisitation, they reflect a profound image of a distant land. The films in this programme summarise a near past, and are the outcome of a common battle. In uncertain times, these films also appear as a luminous auspice for what cinema will become.

With the presence of curator Orazio Leogrande and filmmaker Azucena Losana.