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The Despair of the Monkeys (2022)
Directed by Julián García Long
Documentary · 17m
The first films of Patagonia - where I grew up - show a territory that no longer exists, as the araucarias, millenary trees from the Patagonian forests, were in part replaced by more productive pines. Near my new home, in Belgium, I find araucarias that adorn front gardens. We hear some girls playing in the car, pointing out araucarias on the road. How did these plants become a petty-bourgeois fashion in northern Europe? I confront these archives with contemporary technoscientific images, used by a lab to explore plant modifications. What can these modes of representation tell us about our time?
Crew
- Director
- Julián García Long
- Writer
- Julián García Long
- Editor
- Manuel Embalse
- Producer
- François Willig
Details
- Original title
- La desesperación de los monos
- Release date
- 2022-12-31
- Runtime
- 17m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Original language
- ES
- Spoken languages
- French, Spanish
- Countries
- Argentina, France
- Production
- Le Fresnoy