The despair of monkeys (La desesperacion de los monos) – Trailer – FESCH.TV

The despair of monkeys (La desesperacion de los monos) – Trailer & FESCH.TV:

17′, b&w and color, 2K. France, Argentina.
Produced by Le Fresnoy, Studio National des Arts contemporains.

Synopsis: The first films from Patagonia – where I grew up – depict a land that no longer exists, as the thousand-year-old Araucaria trees have been partly replaced by pine trees. Near my new home in Brussels, I find Araucarias adorning the front yards. How did these plants become a petit-bourgeois fashion here? I confront these images with contemporary scientific images, used by a laboratory to explore plant modification. What can these modes of representation tell us about our times?

Written and filmed by: Julián García Long
Edited by: Manuel Embalse
VFX: Guangli Liu
Sound designer: Julián Galay
assistant sound editor: Hernan Higa
Mixer: Martin Delzescaux
Script collaboration: Tatiana Mazú González
Color grading: Maxime Tellier

Festivals screening:
CINEAUTOPSIA Bogotá Experimental Film Festival – Colombia
Rockaway Film Festival – USA
RIGA IFF – Latvia (Jury Mention)
Corsica.doc – France
Festifreak – Argentina
Science New Wave Festival – USA
Shortwaves ISFF – Poland
Zagreb FF – Croatia
Beijing ISFF – China