Lisandro Alonso

Director

June 2, 1975 (51 years)

Buenos Aires, Argentina

Biography

Lisandro Alonso (born 2 June 1975) is an Argentine film director and screenwriter. Recognized as a leading figure in slow cinema and the New Argentine Cinema movement, he is known for his minimalist, observational films that follow solitary figures moving through remote landscapes, blending elements of documentary and fiction. All seven of his feature films have premiered at the Cannes Film Festival, and his 2014 film Jauja won the FIPRESCI Prize in the Un Certain Regard section. Description ab…

Filmography

6.1

Eureka

A cowboy arrives in a town in search of his daughter, a native policewoman arrests various offenders in a snowy landscape, while her niece, a basketball coach, reunites with her grandfather for a decisive journey that will shape her future, and a bird flies through time and space and begins to enter the minds and dreams of a native tribe in the Amazon jungle.

6.5

Jauja

A father and daughter journey from Denmark to an unknown desert that exists in a realm beyond the confines of civilization.

6.3

Los Muertos

Vargas, a 54 year old man, gets out of jail in the province of Corrientes, Argentina. Once released, he wants to find his now adult daughter, who lives in a swampy and remote area. A deep mystery surrounds him.

6.8

Liverpool

A sailor takes a short leave to visit his hometown and see if his mother is still alive.

6.5

La libertad

A man chops down trees, organizes the trunks, cleans them, stops to defecate, has lunch, takes a nap and continues to sell his timber.

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Double Freedom

Misael works alone with his axe, cutting down trees in the woods. An unexpected responsibility upends his life, and the logic of his days fades away in a nature where human reason holds no meaning.

9.0

Sobre la tierra

A German baroness and her ailing husband arrive at a mansion in the middle of the countryside in Argentina in the decade of the 30s.

5.3

Two on the Pavement

Two boys are sitting on the street, drinking alcohol and talking.

5.8

Fantasma

A solitary man's only pastime is to go to a movie theatre, the Teatro San Martín, on Corrientes Avenue in Buenos Aires. There he exorcises his ghosts.

8.0

Lechuza

Lisandro Alonso creates a face-to-face encounter with the wild in the beguiling and enigmatic, a moment observed in a seemingly floating abyss.

6.0

Untitled (Letter to Serra)

Lisandro Alonso returns to La Pampa, to the same locations of Freedom, to shoot his Carta para Serra (or Sin título), with a camera that seems to float among the vegetation. He has the company of Misael Saavedra, and yet instead of looking back (or making a tribute to his actors, because that was the subject in Fantasma) this movie seeks to be a prologue for his next one.

5.0

Cinematic Correspondences: Albert Serra – Lisandro Alonso

The exhibition 'The Complete Letters' features epistolary works defined by cinematographic creation. This is an experimental communication format used between pairs of film directors. Although each director is situated in a location geographically distant from that of their partner, they are united by their willingness to share ideas and reflections on all that motivates their work. Within this space of freedom, the directors featured in the exhibition examine their affinities and differences, within an environment of mutual respect and simultaneity of interests and with notable formal variants established in each of the correspondences.

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