Nele Wohlatz

El futuro perfecto

Nele Wohlatz

Zhang Xiaobing, Saroj Kumar Malik

A smart and innovative look at the possible futures of a young Chinese immigrant to Buenos Aires, told in the stilted language of an elementary Spanish textbook.

La mochila perfecta

Nele Wohlatz

An ecologist from Germany and her filmmaker daughter who lives in Argentina meet in Cuba to film a documentary on snails. The mother has worked for years helping her colleagues in Cuba protect the polymita picta snails, which are facing extinction. She has her own ideas on how to make the documentary and the daughter follows her lead. However, when the authorities ban the shooting, the course of the film changes: it is no longer about the snails, but they themselves become the protagonists.

Ricardo Bär

Nele Wohlatz, Gerardo Naumann

Ricardo Bär, Inés Bär

Ricardo Bar (22) is a young man who lives with his family in a little farm, in the border of Brazil and Argentina. There is mainly the jungle and the settlers, descendants of German immigrants. Ricardo doesn't want to inherit his father's land; he wants to become a pastor. Problems begin when Ricardo and the community tell the directors to stop shooting and leave. From that moment on Ricardo Bar tells two stories: one about a deal, the directors' offer to Ricardo in order to be able to shoot the film, and the other about Ricardo's life at this moment, his reaction to the director's offer, reenacted for the camera.

Novios del campo

Nele Wohlatz, Gerardo Naumann

The couple from the countryside is siting there, and tells all about their love. The man talks about how he met her; the woman talks about how they split up. The countryside was keeping its most hidden secret.

Tres oraciones sobre la Argentina

Nele Wohlatz

Mian Jiang, Josue Wang

Archival footage of Argentinian skiers is transposed into prompts for language exercises.

Turista

Nele Wohlatz

I keep moving the videos from one place to another and look for a relationship, as if they were the material for a film. That's how I know it: we shoot images to tell a story with them. But none of these videos were shot with that intention.

Archivos intervenidos: Cine Escuela

María Alché, Daniel Rosenfeld