María Aparicio
Directing
Biography
María Aparicio (Argentina, 1992) was born and lives in Córdoba. The Streets (2016) is his first film as a director, followed by About the Clouds. Her works were shown at a number of local and international festivals and exhibits, and received a lot of recognition.
Known For
COMPANIONS deals with the love between people and dogs. It’s made up of scenes of intimacy—caresses, habits, games, cares, stories of coming and loss, of protection, and uprooting. The stories intertwine and make up a map of love and its enigmas.
Companions
A lonely guy who lives with seven dogs get a complaint from his neighbors. Will he come up with a creative solution to overcome this?
Seven Dogs
Ramiro is a bar cook. Hernán is an unemployed technician. Nora is a nurse in a public hospital. Lucia sells books in a bookstore. Four stories and a black and white city with persistent rain. None of them know each other, they are only inhabitants of the same city.
Above the Clouds
A life marked by wandering. A character that leaves no traces or maps to trace. The file does not give an account of him. His works had no scripts and only existed in the fugacity of the moment. Jorge Bonino was an unclassifiable artist. He triumphed in all of Europe without a translator, he only used an invented language that everyone understood. An imaginary friend mapped the traces his body left in space through stories about a possible life.
A Body Exploded into a Thousand Pieces
Pelu is a thirty-something who barely survives on his salary as a projectionist at a municipal film club. After losing his job, he agrees to stay on as a night watchman and ends up living secretly inside the cinema, accompanied by the films he reviews every night.
The Night Is Fading Away
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El cine que nos forma
After being unemployed for several months, Hernán attends a job interview to apply for a position in a call center.
Hombre bajo la lluvia
Eva, a film editor, and her assistant Rami are working on a film about blind people. A melancholy reflection on cinema and images.
Undefined Things
Collective film made from digitalized footage from the collection of Argentinian nitrate films of the Museo del Cine Pablo Ducrós Hicken, made on the occasion of its anniversary.
What those eyes saw
Las calles could be regarded as a film about words, about describing and naming, about secrets and confessions, and about language as the matter of memory. In a dialogue between generations, young people are responsible for elaborating the question, and School is the place that tries to come up with a technique for it. In turn, the elderly answer through their stories, which are basically the story of the town. And like the word –which is always a fiction– builds a reality, the film sustains its tone on that intermediate area in which a fictional setting provides the conditions for the pure documentary genre to mark the pace and reach out to people.
The Streets
"Buscar trabajo" is part of the film "Lo que vieron aquellos ojos" together with short films by Florencia Labat, Franco Figueroa and Manque La Banca. It was produced within the context of the Bienal de Arte Joven in 2022, through the call "Experimentación audiovisual: 50 años del Museo del Cine". The materials of this film are part of the Argentine Nitrate Collection of the Cinema Museum Pablo Ducrós Hicken. The work process of "Lo que vieron aquellos ojos" was coordinated by Maui Alena and advised by Malena Solarz and Pablo Padovani.