Some lines about what it was like to film in Trelew
The story of this film began in Trelew, in Rawson, in Unión Beach, in the bare
and vast meseta in the Argentine patagonia.
If from the beginning we undertook an exhaustive research about the subject that did not leave any loose ends or problems to be discussed, it is true that, at the same time and from the very first moment, the spot where those events had taken place was not neglected.
We had to get to know the places, the attitudes of the people living in a world so
Impact, emotion, surprise are some of the feelings with which the whole team that filmed Trelew coexisted in each stage of the previous research, in the spot where the film was shot, and also during the next journeys to the Patagonia, the ones that the making of the film required of us.
The beginning was closed doors on us, the inhabitants´ silence, their distrust. Little by little, on each journey, over each coffee we shared in the café at the Touring Club - an old inn in Trelew where the greater part of the political history of the region has been decided - we began to gain their affections, trust , and the internal need of those who had been so close to the story, the want for sharing the project. Suddenly, like an internal storm, as a sort of catharsis, those who had refused, now agreed , they claimed that they would take part in it: for themselves, for their children, for a painful story that had been hushed up for years, a story they needed to recapture for themselves.
Filming in Trelew was a shared job, a melting pot of emotions amongst the ones who were behind the camera and those who offered us the clay to model the sculpture. By filming in the Patagonia, we gradually became residents. Little by little we stopped being "foreigners" to be part of a story, the strongest story that had ever taken place in the bare meseta.
In Trelew the tickets were booked up every day, the cinema was crowded on the week when the film was released, it showed us how the film had contributed to change things. Perhaps this is only the beginning of a road along which we need to walk to find out who we are.
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Language: Spanish
Year of production: 2004
Duration: 98 minutes
Format: 35 mm
Sound: Dolby Digital SRD
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