Parsi

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“No es” ('It isn’t') is a cumulative poem by Mariano Blatt, which is constantly written over the course of a lifetime. The text of the poem, a list of “what seems to be but isn’t”, to which verses are added over days, months, and years, can cover anything: images, people, memories, landscapes, phrases, ideas. With this list ringing in its head, Eduardo Williams’s film Parsi finds itself in a perpetual movement through spaces and around people. We are taken on a breathless ride through bustling neighborhoods, from person to person, thrown, dipped under water, rushed from image to image, creating in the process yet another poem which is caressed by, crashes into, and spins next to “No es”. Eduardo Williams’s films explore a fluid mode of observation, looking for mutual relations and open adventures in a physical and virtual network. He believes that uncertainty can yield its own sources of beauty and forms of small-scale resistance through communal escape and shared complicity, so as to chart the rhythms of autonomy over automatism.

details

  • Runtime

    23 min
  • Country

    Argentina, Switzerland
  • Year of Presentation

    2019
  • Year of Production

    2018
  • Director

    Eduardo Williams, Mariano Blatt
  • Cast

    Ivandro Cá, Cris Gomes, Dijibril Baldé, Leandro Pereira, Edimilson Dju, Alfa Kalido Baldé, Richar Dias, Diomedes S Djú, Janaina Casimiro lé, Vadinho da Costa, Brigila Chico Ca, Nadi Ouadé
  • Production Company

    Perez Biscayart, Nahuel
  • Berlinale Section

    Forum
  • Berlinale Category

    Short Film

Biography Eduardo Williams

Eduardo Williams, born in Argentina in 1987, studied at the Universidad del Cine in Buenos Aires before joining Le Fresnoy – Studio national des arts contemporains in France. He has directed various short films and a feature, which have been presented at international film festivals.

Filmography Eduardo Williams

2011 Pude ver un puma | 2014 J'ai oublié | 2016 El auge del humano

Biography Mariano Blatt

Mariano Blatt, born in Argentina in 1983, is a poet and literary editor. “Mi juventud unida” (Mansalva, 2015) collects his poems from 2005 to 2015. He co-directs Blatt & Ríos, an independent publishing house.