Malintzin 17

World Premiere

Minimalist in resources and filmed from the unusual vantage point of a second-floor apartment window, Malintzin 17 portrays two parallel expressions of parental care. For seven days and seven nights filmmaker Eugenio Polgovsky and his five-year-old daughter, Milena, contemplate a nurturing dove nesting her chick on a hazardous entanglement of electric cables situated right outside their balcony. The dove endures the cold and torrential rain, while Milena makes puzzled inquiries to her father about the bird’s location, its stillness, the meaning – and perils – of filming it, its true nature (is it a robot?), and potential ways to assist it (does she need food? Will the chick learn to fly?). Wielding a handheld camera from this elevated point of view, which parallels the bird’s, the film constructs a microscopic yet powerful environmental critique of nature’s entrapment within the aggressive infrastructures of modernity.

Screening Schedule

No scheduled screenings.

Available at the Agora Market.

Direction: Eugenio Polgovsky, Mara Polgovsky

Script: Mara Polgovsky

Cinematography: Eugenio Polgovsky

Editing: Mara Polgovsky, Pedro González-Rubio

Sound: Javier Umpierrez

Production: Tecolote Films, Piano

Producers: Mara Polgovsky, Julio Chavezmontes

Format: DCP

Color: Color