Memoria y homenaje (1986)

A making of in a time when backstage didn't exist. A 1986 short documentary film launched when Argentina was just beginning its "democracy". Made only two years after the military dictatorship collapsed. This is a "rare avis" with several levels, layers, and times of narration. Heterogeneous materials and times were homogenized with a smart narrative edition. Back then, in the leaden years, fiction commercial films gained to documentary films. This film remarks on the limits between reality and fiction, with young innocent actors in front playing real events that they did not even imagine had happened. It is a great montage film made by Rolando Santos and is a good example of collectively working with the past in defiance of narrative conventions.