Jonathan Perel
2021Streetscapes [Dialogue]
Heinz Emigholz
John Erdman, Jonathan Perel
A film director confides in his interlocutor. He talks about the working process, about creative blocks, about artistic crises and expressive forces. At some point, the idea takes hold that this conversation could be turned into a film. And this is the very film we’re watching the two of them in.
Streetscapes [Dialogue]
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Toponimia
Jonathan Perel
From toponymy, a branch of linguistics, to politics, the links can be quite unexpected. These are which are sought to be revealed in the new fi lm by Jonathan Perel who uses his filmwork as a tool to explore and accurately document the marks left by previous dictators of Argentina. We are in the province of Tucuman, in the north of Argentina, an emblematic region where the fi rst Act of Independence in South America was signed in 1816 and where the “Operation Independence” took place in 1974, during which the guerillas’ insurgence was violently repressed.
Toponymy
Responsabilidad empresarial
Jonathan Perel
Jonathan Perel
Images of Argentinian companies and factories in the first light of day, seen from the inside of a car, while the director reads out documents in voiceover that reveals the collusion of the same concerns in the military dictatorship’s terror.
Corporate Responsibility
Die letzte Stadt
Heinz Emigholz
John Erdman, Susanne Sachße
An archaeologist and a weapons designer, who knew each other in a previous life as a filmmaker and a psychoanalyst, meet at an excavation site in the Negev desert and begin a conversation about love and war, which they continue in the Israeli city of Be’er Sheva. A series of encounters with alternating actors in different roles ensues, which leads the viewer through the cities of Athens, Berlin, Hong Kong and São Paulo. Among those appearing are: an old artist who meets his younger self; a mother who lives with her two grown-up sons, a priest and a policeman; a Chinese and a Japanese woman; a curator and a cosmologist.
The Last City
17 Monumentos
Jonathan Perel
Seventeen tripod-bound shots of fixed length observe the diverse and disparate settings in which 17 monuments, each bearing the words 'Memory', 'Truth' and 'Justice', were built by law to mark locations used as detention and torture centres during Argentina's military dictatorship between 1976 and 1983.
17 Monuments
5-T-2 Ushuaia
Jonathan Perel
Adolfo Scilingo was the only military officer to confess the crimes of the dictatorship that ruled Argentina from 1976 to 1983. Among the genocide practices described were the death flights -- the dropping of tortured living prisoners into the Río de la Plata or the Atlantic Ocean. Scilingo specifies the model that was used in the flights he participated in: an Electra. Of the eight Electras belonging to the Argentine Navy, only the three bought in 1973 could have been used in the flights that Scilingo describes. Those planes are at present in Argentina. This film searches cartographically the traces of those planes.
5-T-2 Ushuaia
