Carmen Guarini
2021Ata Tu Arado a una Estrella
Carmen Guarini
Fernando Birri
In 1997 the Argentine filmmaker Fernando Birri returned to his home country to film a documentary on the 30th anniversary of the death of Che Guevara and the relevance of utopias at that time. Carmen Guarini decided to record those moments. A rough edit of this film was hidden away on a fragile VHS tape for twenty years. Today, these images come to life and shed some light on the life of this Latin American poet and master filmmaker, who, at the age of 92, still refused to give up on his own utopias.
Tie Your Plow to a Star
Meykinof
Carmen Guarini
This film is the story of tracking a filming from which its director is interrogated by the crosses between the cinema, reality, ghosts and death. Edgardo Cozarinsky Films in Buenos Aires at night, the story of a taxi-boy who faces the death embodied in former lovers. Guarini discovers the scenes and the daily life of this filming. Her rejection of the "making off" format, leads her to doubt the way forward.
Meykinof
Gorri
Carmen Guarini
The story of this film begins at the moment when the artist and his work become independent forever. Gorriarena dies and his work begins an existence where the author is not there to explain it, replace it or modify it. The mounting of an exhibition is the excuse to explore both material and ideological decisions that coexist in the work of an artist. The film explores some of these decisions and their results, trying to show which gestures of love, trust, order, admiration or greed it arouses, and in the process tries to find the painter's way and perhaps, only perhaps, to get closer to his truth. A truth that is expressed through colour, critical and biting realism, ironic denunciation and energetic resistance to being "accused" of being a political and social painter.
Gorri