Nueva Argirópolis
Lucrecia Martel
Country: Argentina
Year: 2010
Format: Digital
Length: 8 min
Image: Colour
Language: Spanish
Production company: Magma Cine, Instituto Nacional de Cine y Artes Audiovisuales (INCAA)
Producer: María Onis
Screenplay: Lucrecia Martel
Photography: Alejandro Millán Pastori
Editor: Pablo Barbieri, María Onis
Music: María Onis
Sound: Carolina Sandoval, Diego Martínez, JM De (Ñandú)
Actors: Rosa Mienez, Fidel Cáceres, Graciela Samaniego, Leonardo Vera, Gladys Pizzorno, Gabriela Caballero
Synopsis
Snippets of news of something that might be happening upstream of Buenos Aires. This fictional story is loosely inspired by Argirópolis, capital of the proposed Confederation of Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay which Domingo Faustino Sarmiento suggested building on Martín García Island in 1850. Echoes of a founding movement.