
The Despair of the Monkeys
La desesperación de los monos
Overview
The first films of Patagonia - where I grew up - show a territory that no longer exists, as the araucarias, millenary trees from the Patagonian forests, were in part replaced by more productive pines. Near my new home, in Belgium, I find araucarias that adorn front gardens. We hear some girls playing in the car, pointing out araucarias on the road. How did these plants become a petty-bourgeois fashion in northern Europe? I confront these archives with contemporary technoscientific images, used by a lab to explore plant modifications. What can these modes of representation tell us about our time?
- Production
- Le Fresnoy
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Crew
- Director
- Julián García Long
- Writers
- Julián García Long
- Producers
- François Willig
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