09/05/1982, the provocative and boundary-pushing short film by acclaimed Colombian filmmakers Jorge Caballero (Paciente) and Camilo Restrepo (Los Conductos), and produced by Anna Giralt Gris, will have its U.S. premiere in Currents Program 2: Afterimages at the 63rd New York Film Festival, running September 23–October 13, 2025.
Following its acclaimed world premiere at FIDMarseille and North American premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), Caballero and Restrepo's a formally daring, timely work probes the fragility of historical memory and the ways in which images are mobilized to shape it.
A deteriorated celluloid reel, purportedly shot in 1982 in a Latin American country, presents a succession of quotidian scenes, among which a few fragments appear to testify to violent events that took place on May 9 of that year. Interspersed throughout, a man's voice relays the official version of events. Beneath this apparent banality lies the suggestion of a cover-up.
The fabricated images of this fictionalized tragedy are paired with the authoritative cadence of the narrator, echoing the rhetoric of law, order, and national security. By presenting an invented reel as if it were a recovered historical document, Caballero and Restrepo expose a central dilemma of our time: how images can be weaponized to rewrite or manipulate the past.
Produced by Artefacto, a hub for research, production, and innovation in film and technology based in Barcelona, the film reflects the company’s mission to foster the critical and creative use of technology—especially artificial intelligence—in order to explore and shape the future of cinema. Founded in 2023 by Caballero and Giralt Gris, Artefacto has quickly established itself as a benchmark at the intersection of film and technology, pioneering new narratives and formats that redefine and challenge the cinematic experience.
