The Enormous Presence of the Dead


13’ · 2019 · Argentina
Fiction

Director & Writer: José María Avilés
Cinematographer: Lucas Gaynor
Editing: José María Avilés, Sebastián Schjaer
Cast: Mario Paniagua, Julieta Juncadella, Rafael Federman
Production: Una Presencia Cine

Synopsis
After receiving his wages and sending the money back to his home country, a house painter deliberately abandons his cell phone on a park bench. Soon after, a young woman finds it and decides to keep it. The artist and the worker, sex and death, the city and nature, the distant and the close, the actual and the virtual. Opposing and disparate elements that, through the film’s rigorous construction, end up giving meaning to what has none: life itself.

San Sebastián Film Festival, Festival de Biarritz, among others.