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La piel

The Skin
Javier Olivera
Spain
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Synopsis

Time moves onward and leaves behind traces in bodies, in memory, in cinema. A boy grows up in an uncertain world while his father, camera in hand, tries to capture that moment and build a bridge to the future. Between fragments of life, reflections and farewells, the question arises: how does one raise a child in an era marked by collapse? Far from the noise of the city, in search of some other way to inhabit the world, the director receives a visit from his father, a man who once inhabited cinema and is now burdened with the frailty of old age. Between grandfather and grandson, the director discovers himself in transit: still a son, now a father. La piel is a portrait of love as a shelter, of memory as an anchor and of cinema as a witness. (FDM)

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Director biography

Javier Olivera
Javier Olivera

Javier Olivera is an Argentinean visual artist and filmmaker who works with film, video, photography and installation. His early training was in painting under Luis Felipe Noé and Eduardo Stupía, and he later studied film at UCLA and literature in Spain.
In cinema, he co-wrote and directed the fiction film El visitante (1999) and the documentaries Mika mi guerra de España (2013); La sombra (2015); La extraña. Notas sobre el (auto) exilio (2018); Una habitación en Bangkok (2025) and La piel (2025). All his films have been screened at international festivals and exhibitions. He has also led seminars and tutorials on video-making, film, documentary and screenwriting in Argentina, Colombia, Uruguay, Cuba and Spain.
In parallel to his filmmaking, he has also been developing a body of work in other disciplines since 1990, including painting, photography, single-channel video and video installation, which have been exhibited in solo and group shows in Argentina (MALBA, Museo de Arte Moderno, Centro Cultural Recoleta) and internationally (Museu da Imagen e o Som, Brazil; Museum Ludwig, Germany; Tabakalera, Spain).

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Finished

Sessions

May

Wednesday 07
12:30 h
CINETECA - Plató

Credits

Language
Spanish - Subtitles in english
Director
Javier Olivera
Production
Rafael Alvarez
Editing
Javier Olivera
Sound
Alberto Carlassare
Music
Alberto Carlassare
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