Film Info
La casa (de Gustavo Fontán)

Film Information

Exhibition Title	La casa (de Gustavo Fontán)
Original Title	La casa (de Gustavo Fontán)
English Title	The House
Director	Gustavo Fontán
Country
Year	2012
Format	HD
Colour	Color
Duration	62'

Production:

Guión / Scriptwriter: Gustavo Fontán
Fotografía / Cinematography: Diego Poleri, Gustavo Schiaffino
Edición / Editing: Mario Bocchicchio
Producción / Producer: Guillermo Pineles
Compañía Productora / Production Company: Insomnia Films

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Synopsis

La casa closes the trilogy that started with El árbol and Elegía de abril, and returns to that house in Banfield where the filmmaker’s parents lived. As it happened in the other films, Fontán manages to occupy the empty spots with evocations and presences. The house is now empty, and we can notice the figure of one of the acacia trees that started this story, on the sidewalk outside. But the camera will stay inside, going through the wallpapers and the dark rooms, sensing through thick air the memory of other voices and environments. A film with no characters that is filled with absence, La casa goes through the aura of a place that is pure past. The last minutes of the film detail the destruction of the house –which feels like an implosion. A demolition company’s trucks tear down the walls and bury the memories and images under a dust cloud that looks a lot like oblivion. The resignation of being faced with an advancing world, and an elegy for a time that is gone.