Darío Schvarzstein

This is the cinematographic diary of an extended trip across the Pampas, on the trail of Guillermo Enrique Hudson, aka William Henry Hudson. Hudson is an enigmatic figure, full of paradoxes: he was an Argentine gaucho who became an English writer. He fought in the army against the “savages” but also defended them. He wrote obsessively about his native land, but never returned. In the twists and turns of the road, emerges a mix of documentary speculation, personal memory… and dreams.

An historical research on radicalization of Chilean poetry that took place after the coup d'etat in 1973.

“Amsterdam” is a fictional film made from a screenplay written in collaboration with Argentinian author Reinaldo Laddaga, that researched and used the non semantical languages that where explored in previous works. The obstruction of understandable language allowed for the actors and the director to improvise when shooting the scenes. As spoken language and text became more and more abstracted through the filming process, the actors physical expression became the predominant form of communication. Under these working premisses, the act of filmmaking allows to experience an “state of exception” comparable to a moment of social anarchy. Ultimately “Amsterdam” perhaps can be considered a love story gone strange.

In this documentary, Andrés Di Tella and Dario Schvarsztein discussed sensitively and accurately the motivations and creative processes of three Mexican contemporary artists of great global impact: Pedro Reyes, Carlos Amorales and Minerva Cuevas.

For ten years, from December 1961 to November 1971, Buenos Aires was a place where contemporary Latin American music changed forever. Young composers from all over the Americas came to Buenos Aires on scholarships to work for two years in a laboratory: the Latin American Center for Advanced Musical Studies at the Di Tella Institute. Half a century later, they returned to Buenos Aires, with some unfinished business.