Official Competition 2019

La jovencita no envejece, se descompone

Álvaro F. Pulpeiro I 2019 I 20'

SYNOPSIS

In La Guajira, a place that seems to have neither begun nor ceased to exist, suspended in a time that does not pass, elastic and eternally crepuscular, a young girl goes astray. The young girl wanders voiceless, only with music, wind and sand. What does she look for and where does she go? Perhaps she escapes from something that has no remedy? The young girl does not grow old, but decomposes.

BIOGRAPHY

Álvaro F. Pulpeiro

ÁLVARO F. PULPEIRO (Galicia, 1990) is a filmmaker currently based in Bogotá. After graduating from the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London, he travels repeatedly to Montevideo where he made his first feature film Nocturno: Fantasmas de Mar en Puerto (2017).

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Critical text

This unusual work, produced by A Cuarta Parede Films, submerges us from its first measures in a dreamlike atmosphere crossed by mystery. The sonorous textures, halfway between minimalism and ambient, are the introduction to la Jovencita’s universe, which is dominated by introspection and the desire to tear the limits of her existence. A motorbike crosses the desert in the middle of the night as a metaphor for the inner journey, while the gaze of our protagonist scrutinizes the horizon. What does she want to find? What is the objectof her search? Solitude is accentuated in the immensity of the landscape, always portrayed in a monotonous but irrevocable flight. The voices are deformed and, like the shades of red and green, the panoramas or the detailed shots, make it evident that the journey of la Jovencita does not consist only in an attempt to escape from herself, but also delineates with precision and visual exuberance the nuance that differentiates two vital processes: to grow old is not to decompose. RAMÓN DEL BUEY

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