Pablo Martín Weber

Sitting at his computer, an Argentine director reflects on the metaphysical postulates of British natural historian Philip Henry Gosse, while he experiments with images and sounds saved in his personal database.

In 2017, young Mapuche Rafael Nahuel was killed by police in the Patagonian forest. Site visits, court proceedings – the film unites the elements involved in solving the crime. Meticulously observed: the struggle for civil rights and narrating history.

In the heart of Eurasia, H. discovers humanity's best kept secret (and perhaps its last hope). From San Salvador de Jujuy to the desertic and mountainous confines of the Chinese State; H., generic Argentinean system of programmer police, persecuted and tortured Russian cryptographer, Islamic cyber-terrorist adrift in an unfinished beta desert, disembodied prison guard, mutinous prisoner, a mark carved in the ruins of a very old wall, dust of a planet in retreat, involuntary banner of a rebellion.

Mourning (noun) 1. Sadness that you show and feel because someone has died, or because something no longer exists or is no longer the same. 2. Clothes that people wear to show their sadness at someone's death. Fiction.

A surefire tactic: science fiction is ideal for political criticism. Alleged reports made in 2015 in Córdoba and summarized 50 years later by an alien allow us to investigate ubiquitous police control, the technical evolution of humans, the political history of the province, and the relationship of all this to Macri's victory that year. The instability of the images and the perplexed tone of the agent's voiceover create the narrative distance necessary to undermine any form of ideological certainty.