María Esther Palant was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1932. The daughter of a surgeon and stenographer for the Argentine Congress, she studied sculpture and painting in her country. In 1962, the young plastic artist undertook the making of a 35mm short film about the great Argentine sculptor Agustín Riganelli, marking her in the cinema, and supported by the Argentine Film Fund. Maria Esther launched into filming with the concern of creating a method so that the sculptures could rotate on a base. She considered that photography and lighting would be vital to achieve a poetic climate in...
