Zhest

Gastón Solnicki | Argentina | 2010 | 1' |

| IFFR 2011

A Gesture contains a face, some music and a few questions: what becomes of the ability to listen when one is admiring the face of someone listening? Put another way: how do you look Maurice Ravel’s La Valse straight in the face? Festival trailer produced for Bafici, Buenos Aires. Screened before Hoy como ayer.

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