Portraits of the Future

Before the pandemic, the director was making a film about the resistance of the subway delegates in Buenos Aires, but the pandemic interrupted it and several protagonists of the film died from COVID-19. The dystopian future of which the film spoke was transformed into a present never imagined. The stopped project is now an existential, philosophical, and human essay on the new “normality” that affects us. The film is built as an experiment with the cinematographic resources that isolation allowed. The language of networks and screens resizes everyday reality, while love is a source of resistance that inhabits the most personal archives.

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Direction: Virna Molina

Cinematography: Virna Molina, Ernesto Ardito, Nika Ardito

Editing: Virna Molina

Sound: Virna Molina, Ernesto Ardito, Nika Ardito, Isadora Ardito

Production: Virna y Ernesto

Producers: Ernesto Ardito, Virna Molina

Format: DCP

Color: Color, B/W

Production Country: Argentina

Production Year: 2021

Duration: 89΄

Contact: Virna y Ernesto

Virna Molina

Filmography

2003 Raymundo (co-direction)
2008 Heart of the Factory (co-direction)
2011 Nazion (co-direction)
2014 The Future is Ours (co-direction)
2017 Symphony for Ana (fiction, co-direction)
2020 Sex and Revolution (co-direction)
2021 Portraits of the Future