Lucía Lalor
Art
Biography
Lucía Lalor (Buenos Aires, 1993) writes and directs. She did the short films “Notes from a Dromedary” (2022), “Igneous Journal” (2022), “I changed the windows of my house”, “At this moment I am emotionally somewhere else”, “Azul” (2019) and “Paulina” (2017). Her works oscillate between fiction, documentary and experimental cinema.
Known For
An adolescent on a remote place narrates his story marked by a past in the Sahara being a camel, Pringles fries, the desire for fat women’s bodies, strange drawings, colonizers and reggaeton.
Notes from a Dromedary
A man steals his wife's diamond ring and sells it to buy a pinball. Three friends travel to the coast to buy a pinball but are scammed and receive unexpected help. A woman accidentally kills her lover, disposes of his body, and later learns that he might have diamonds on top of him. Three absurd stories of love and crime around the popular machines.
Flipper
A heat wave strikes Buenos Aires and Juana has to stay while everyone is on vacation; for her everything seems repetitive and dull, and a pop song about the sea follows her everywhere.
Azul
The 19th of September of 2021 the volcanic ridge of Cumbre Vieja, on the island of La Palma started erupting. This eruption lasted until the 13th of December of 2021. Lucía and two other filmmakers decided to travel and register the volcano. This is the journal of the first two days, based on the camera errors and casual conversations that were on the footage: Bad focus, being sleepy, journalists not knowing how to name the eruption, instagram, the crunch of Pringles fries, glutamato monosodico, the radio fluctuating between Prince and Elvis, selfies with the volcano, plans for illegal stuff and the seconds before a final system error.
Igneous Journal or Chronology of a System Error
Leo is going through a rough patch. His job as a college professor doesn’t provide him with enough money, and to make matters worse, his partner leaves him. He will look for palliatives during one Buenos Aires evening filled with excess in which the threat of self-destruction is always lurking.
Fearing Future
In the absence of projects in which to establish herself as an actress, Franca looks for unconventional alternatives to obtain recognition.
A Single Room
Mora volunteers to be a surrogate so that Fran and Andy can become parents, but after conception, she changes her mind and unsuccessfully tries to have an abortion. That is how, unexpectedly, the three of them begin to live together, which alters everything.
The Fire
Three rooms, three different moments of a relationship.
Paulina
A man working for a U.S. company arrives in a coastal town in Mexico to supervise the construction of the first hotel in the area. He starts feeling uncomfortable as the townspeople express their frustration over the invasion of their beaches, until one night the confrontation reaches a breaking point.
El Güero
A portrait of Buenos Aires done for the Festival Extra at Centre Pompidou