The Argentine documentary film Everything That Is Forgotten in an Instant / Todo lo que se olvida en un instante by American-born director Richard Shpuntoff will have its world premiere as part of the international competition at the 31st edition of FID Marseille, followed by screenings at the Sheffield Doc/Fest.
Everything That Is Forgotten in an Instant is a documentary essay about the construction of the American identity in which the filmmaker asks himself: how can he bequeath to his daughters that which is not his? Woven from the filmmaker’s 16mm black and white images of his first 16 years living in Buenos Aires and Hi8 video interviews of his father walking the streets of his childhood neighborhood in New York, the film is an essay about the construction of identity. Workers rebuilding a sandbox in a plaza, marches and protests, the city seen from the window of a bus, family life at home, all considered through the lens of histories that serve as a bridge between the filmmakers’ two worlds: Argentina and the United States, Buenos Aires and New York.
“Extremely beautiful and rare. Its poetic and historical density, its way of going from intimate to a shared narrative” wrote Sheffield Doc/Fest’s director Cíntia Gil, while the FIDMarseille’s program notes describe it as “the first rigorously bilingual film.”
The 31st edition of FIDMarseille is taking place July 22-26 in France, while Sheffield Doc/Fest has expanded its 2020 edition to online screenings taking place this summer and through the fall.
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