In the Providencia barrio of Santiago, Chile, a neighbor lives through the demolition of the house next door and the construction of a building in the same place, over a two-year period. Under Construction is about the passing of time and the transformation of a space where minor and major events occur: a death and a birth; neighborhoods disappearing; buildings being demolished and built; winters and springs passing. In the end, when the building is finished, the protagonist looks up at his new neighbors, while they look down at him from their balcony: evidence of a space (and a past) that they now control.
UNDER CONSTRUCTION (OR THE PLACE I WAS BORN NO LONGER EXISTS) / AQUÍ SE CONSTRUYE (O YA NO EXISTE EL LUGAR DONDE NACÍ)
A film by Ignacio Agüero
(Chile, 2000, 77 min. In Spanish with English subtitles)
Now streaming on DAFilms
