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The new ruins (17TH ANNUAL SCIENCE NEW WAVE FESTIVAL)

105 min
  • DIRECTOR: Manuel Embalse

Synopsis:

The new ruins (Manuel Embalse | Argentina | 2024 | 90 min)

An amateur archaeologist obsessed with electronic waste records images and sounds for ten years, as part of an intuitive investigation. As he shapes a personal, playful and musical diary, he travels the world tirelessly, trying to decipher what his findings hide and how he might interpret them. One day, in a workshop recycling electronic objects, a strange revelation happens. From that moment on, his search takes an unexpected turn and, following the trail of a ghost poet, new questions appear. As time goes by and new ruins accumulate, the archaeologist sees his cat named Pendrive grow up and asks him: "Dear friend, how will history be written in the future? Who will write it?

" Thus, between absurdity and darkness, the archaeologist will try to understand the current state of technology and its link with memory, in times of environmental crisis and overproduction.

Preceded by a hyper-detailed animated story of Japan's now-vanished river otters, in the dreamlike waste-scapes of the Anthropocene:

Kawauso (Akihito Izuhara | Japan | 2023 | 15 min)

 

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