From acclaimed Uruguayan poet and filmmaker Alex Piperno, comes this quiet, sly and meditative surrealist film about loneliness. In two seemingly disparate tales, a sailor on a cruise ship discovers a portal that takes him to a woman’s apartment in Montevideo, and a shack in rural Philippines contains an evil portent.
The young sailor washes windows on a cruise ship off the coast of Patagonia, feeling ever isolated by both his colleagues and the wealthy passengers, when he stumbles on a door he doesn’t recognize. Inside, he finds himself on dry land, in the apartment of an equally lonely soul, a woman living in Montevideo. Then, Piperno takes us to a remote Filipino countryside, where the villagers find a small hut, quaking in a strange way. With non-professional actors, labyrinthian proceedings, but a profound emotional gravitas, Piperno’s film defies explanation, and is utterly compelling.
Director Biography
Alex Piperno was born in Montevideo in 1985 and is a filmmaker and poet who was educated at the Universidad del Cine de Buenos Aires. He is the director of the short films “La inviolabilidad del domicilio se basa en el hombre que aparece empuñando un hacha” (2011), “Lloren la locura perdida de estos campos” (2019) and the documentary short ¡Hola a los fiordos! (2016).
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