Todo documento de civilización

Name: Todo documento de civilización
Start: 2025-05-07UTC16:00
Location: CINETECA - Plató

Every Document of Civilization

Tatiana Mazú González

Argentina

2024

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Synopsis

A border divides Buenos Aires, running between the city and the province of General Paz. There, where the cement carves out edges deeper than the maps do, Luciano Arruga was disappeared by the police. Sixteen years later, his absence is still felt in the streets, in the traffic lights, in the incessant noise of a city that promises impossible futures. Based on his mother Monica’s accounting of it, Todo documento de civilización reconstructs the story, one of state violence yet also of love and struggle. Tatiana Mazú pieces back together that absence with forensic precision, cross-referencing city documents, protests, Google Maps images and the writings of Jules Verne, the author that mother and son used to read together, imagining other worlds. Because any document attempting to explain civilization also reveals its barbarism. (FDM)

Festivals

2024 - FIDMarseille - Prix Georges de Beauregard - International Competition
2024 - FicValdivia - Special Mention - International Competition

Director biography

Tatiana Mazú González

Buenos Aires, 1989. She lives among cats and plants on the city outskirts. She is an experimental documentary filmmaker and teacher and, broadly speaking, works with image and sound.
A feminist and left-wing activist who once wanted to be a biologist or a geographer: today her imagination explores the links between people and spaces, the microscopic and the immense, the personal and the political, the childlike and the obscure. She films, photographs, draws, designs and sews.
She belongs to the Antes Muerto Cine collective and R.A.T.A - Red Anarquista de Trabajadores Audiovisuales.
Her films El estado de las cosas (2012, with Joaquín Maito), La Internacional (2015), Caperucita roja (2019), Río Turbio (Prix Georges de Beauregard FID Marseille 2020) and Todo Documento de Civilización (Prix Georges de Beauregard FID Marseille 2024) have been screened and won awards at the Mar del Plata International Film Festival, FICValdivia, FICUNAM, DocLisboa, Jeonju IFF, Festifreak, Cinelatino.