SHORT FILM PROGRAMME
SKALVIJA: December 13th
NEW ARGIRÓPOLIS
Nueva Argirópolis | 8 min |2010 | Argentina, Spanish | with Lithuanian and English subtitles
Snippets of news of something that might be happening upstream of Buenos Aires. This fictional story is inspired by Argirópolis, the capital of the Confederation of Argentina, Uruguay, and Paraguay that Sarmiento proposed creating on Martín García Island in 1850.
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FISHES
Pescados | 4 min | 2010 | Argentina, Spanish | with Lithuanian and English subtitles
This is a work by Lucrecia Martel and composer and singer Juana Molina, in which fish dream of becoming cars.
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LEGUAS
12 min | 2015 | Argentina, Spanish | with Lithuanian and English subtitles
Members of an indigenous community in Argentina dedicated to grazing cows claim the acres of land from their ranch appropriated by the local landowner illegally.
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THE NORTH STATION
Terminal Norte | 37 min | 2021 | Argentina, English and Spanish | with Lithuanian and English subtitles
During the 2020 lockdown, Lucrecia Martel returns to home in Salta, Argentina. She follows Julieta Laso who, like a muse, introduces her to a group of female artists and defiant people who exchange glances and opinions around a fire.
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MAID
Camerara de piso | 12 min | 2022 | Mexico, Argentina, Spanish | with Lithuanian and English subtitles
The film examines class, labor, and gendered violence through choreography. Its main protagonist, a chambermaid-in-training, moves through space as directed by her employer, until an offscreen phone call disrupts her routine and alters her rhythm. Secretly on the phone the woman guides her children to safety after the latest in a series of acts of domestic violence. In twelve minutes, Lucrecia Martel shifts fluidly from labor drama to thriller to diva-tinged melodrama, all shaped by Juan Onofri Barbato’s choreography.
