Parador Retiro
Retiro Shelter
2008
Argentina
84 minutes
Spanish
The shelter is a warehouse divided into two by a partition of metal cupboards. On one side, the dormitory, and on the other, a cafeteria where the residents sit around talking or watching television. The space is panoptical, the inner transparency contrasting with the windowless outer brick wall of the building, This absence of communication between the inside and outside is certainly intended to protect the intimacy of the residents, homeless people, drug addicts, ex-prisoners, even though this intimacy is refused them on the inside. More to the point, it hides from society an unbearable concentration of hopeless poverty and distress. Besides, why go outside when the despair is the same, though a little more dispersed? (Yann Lardeau)
Production :
Cine Ojo
Cine Ojo
Editing :
Salvador Savarese; Diego Arevalo Rosconi
Salvador Savarese; Diego Arevalo Rosconi
Sound :
Carlos Olmedo; Pablo Demarco; Lena Esquenazi
Carlos Olmedo; Pablo Demarco; Lena Esquenazi
Photography :
Gabriel González
Gabriel González
Copy Contact :
Cine Ojo
Cine Ojo