Black Box
Forum of Independents - Competition 2003 / Caja negra / Argentina 2002
17-year-old Dorotea tries to get in contact with her father, who has just been released from prison after many years. But it is a long time before the invisible barrier between father and daughter starts to disappear.
Synopsis
17-year-old Dorotea lives with her 100-year-old grandmother. Every morning she combs her gran’s hair, massages her wrinkled, dry skin, and gets her ready for the day. Then she cycles to work. Eduardo, her father, is released from prison. Like an aimless ghost, he walks through the streets of Buenos Aires and ends up in the Salvation Army men’s hostel. Dorotea tries to see him, but Eduardo shies away from all contact with her. They meet a number of times on a park bench in a children’s playground, but they don’t speak to each other. Only gradually does the invisible barrier between father and daughter start to disappear. Finally Dorotea manages to bring her father home for dinner... What happened in the past is no longer important: we just leave it all stored in the “black box” of our imagination.
About the film
81 min / Color, 35 mm
Director Luis Ortega
/ Screenplay Luis Ortega
/ Dir. of Photography Luis Ortega
/ Music Leandro Chiappe
/ Editor César Custodio
/ Producer Chino Fernández
/ Production Villa Vicio
/ Cast Dolores Fonzi, Eduardo Couget, Eugenia Bassi, Silvio Bassi
/ Contact Villa Vicio s.r.l.
About the director
Luis Ortega (1980, Buenos Aires) moved with his family to the US at the age of three, where he lived for ten years before returning to Argentina. He studied scriptwriting and philosophy. Black Box (Caja negra) is his first feature film.
Contacts
Villa Vicio s.r.l.
Estados Unidos 272, , Buenos Aires
Argentina
Phone: +54 11 430 067 89
Fax: +54 11 474 862 49
E-mail: villavicio@uolsinectis.com.ar
Guests
Luis Ortega
