A 90-year-old man tries to define art while accidentally becoming it.
Bernardo has turned 90 and is working to realize a dream: to make a film about art. He spends countless hours writing the script. He understands it's an arduous and complex task: What is art? When is there art? What is the purpose of art? Antonio, his friend, decides to collaborate, lending his knowledge and experience to the project. Marcelo meets Bernardo through Lucy, his partner of over 60 years, and finds him deep in his work, immersed in the uncertainties, frustrations, and joys inherent in any creative process. Watching him work, something of Bernardo's dream awakens in Marcelo a desire, another dream. He offers his help, while also asking to be able to capture Bernardo's daily work with his own eyes, thus creating his film. A dream that gradually shifts from the work Antonio sculpts on Bernardo's camera to Marcelo's gaze.
Direction
Marcelo turns observation into participation, then into art itself.
Production
Sculptor Antonio literally carves Bernardo's camera—meta-physical.
Director
Marcelo Goyeneche
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of the 'cine argentino' movement exploring self-reflexive documentary—think of it as Argentina's answer to the personal essay film, but with more charming old men.
The film's structure mirrors its subject: it becomes about the impossibility of its own premise, which is honestly braver than most films about art.
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