Aquí Se Construye (o Ya No Existe el Lugar Donde Nací) (2000)
Genre: Documentary
Duration: 77 minuten
Alternative title: Under Construction (or the Place I Was Born No Longer Exists)
Country:
Chili
Directed by: Ignacio Agüero
IMDb score:
7,8 (75)
Releasedate: 24 August 2000
This movie is not available on US streaming services.
Aquí Se Construye (o Ya No Existe el Lugar Donde Nací) plot
Between June 1997 and October 1999, filmmaker Ignacio Agüero followed the demolition and new construction in a neighborhood in the Chilean capital Santiago. The ongoing destruction - the violent knocking down of walls by monstrous grasping arms - contrasts Agüero with a calm camera sliding past the old houses. There are signs with 'vende' (for sale) everywhere. The biologist Guillermo Mann has also put up such a sign. When his mother fell ill, he returned to his childhood home. He has lived in this neighborhood for half a century. In the noise and dust of the demolition he now sees his past slowly disappear. In his garden, animals still find shelter among the special, imported plants...
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