Gorri

Film Information:
Year:

2010

Gorri

País:

 

Director:

Carmen Guarini

Color:

Color

Format:

Digibeta

Duration:

73 min

Production:

  • GUIÓN: Carmen Guarini
  • FOTOGRAFÍA: Carmen Guarini
  • MONTAJE: Martín Céspedes
  • PRODUCCIÓN: Carmen Guarini,
  • El Desencanto SRL

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Synopsis

Usually one thinks up a documentary about a character taking what actually exists: existing images, sounds, friends, close or expert people to talk about it. But what kind of documentary can one make when that body and voice are gone? Or rather, to what extent can that absence help unfold a different kind of film, a less traditional and more challenging one? In that sense, Gorri is less a documentary about the remarkable artist Carlos Gorriarena than a reflection on the material with which a documentary is made. This way, the film continues what Guarini had already explored in Jaime de Nevares, último viaje –together with Marcelo Céspedes– and Meykinof, two of her most fertile “portraits” which were born out of the will to avoid common and almost hagiographic places. Gorriarena is there without actually being there, and he doesn’t need any external validation because it’s enough with ours, as we see him briefly among those anonymous artists for whom “Gorri” himself is anonymous. That’s when the insights on his style or artistic intentions seem to give way to the ordinary man as he mixes with the others, nurturing the film with all that which is, also, a documentary filmmaker’s most precious material.

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