La sudestada
Southern Storm | Tempesta del sud
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MOVIE CATEGORY
The “sudestada” is a wind that comes from the south, and which stuns and perhaps reinvigorates the life of private detective Jorge Villafañez, a clumsy observer of others’ lives. He is methodical and usually indifferent to irregular and unexpected events. Nervertheless, something breaks when he is assigned to spy on Elvira, an experimental choreographer who involuntarily (or perhaps not) hypnotizes him, disorientates him, and makes him discover the world of those who are observed, increasingly distant from those who simply observe.
The work of Daniel Casabé and Edgardo Dieleke focuses on how the gaze determines one’s sense of living: Jorge pierces the filter that has always separated him from the object of his investigations, and this can only happen through the metaphor of dance and performance art, which slowly absorbs and incorporates a grotesque and unpredictable film, compressed by the greyness of the city and sudden jumps into savage greenness.
DIRECTORY
Director, screenwriter, editor, film and literature professor, Daniel Casabé graduated from the Universidad del Cine in Buenos Aires and made along with Edgardo Diekele his two documentaries Crack de nácar (2013) and La forma exacta de las islas (2014). La sudestada (2023) is their first fiction film.
Born in 1980, director Edgardo Diekele made with Daniel Casabé documentaries in many occasions in South America, like with the Sur Award for Best Documentary, by the Argentine Academy of Cinema, and the Condor Award, by the Argentine Association of Film Critics. Their work was selected in festivals like Mar del Plata and Havana International Festival. Finally La sudestada was in the Big Screen Competition of Rotterdam 2023.
