Fire in the sea
Sebastián Zanzottera
Arg. 2022 . 15′
Images of the sea set on fire trigger a dream with photographs of my father at an oil and gas plant in the Patagonian steppe in 1982. He took these photos while he was working for the Argentine State Gas Company, before its privatization and closure. In those plants, the soundscape of the wind merges with the hum of the machines, just as the extraction of fuel merges with the damage to the land and bodies. The film proposes a dreamlike crossing absences, marks on the body and the construction of masculinity of oil and gas workers.
Realization and 3D design: Sebastián Zanzottera
Production: Nacho Losada
Editing: Tatiana Mazú González
Sound design: Julián Galay
Image post: Daniela Medina Silva – Joaquín Maito
Sound Post: Hernan Higa
Graphic design: Tatiana Mazú González – Joaquín Maito
Translation and subtitling: Manuel Embalse
Festivals
Visions du réel – Opening Scenes – Switzerland – 2022
FICIC (Cosquín International Film Festival) – International Short Film Competition – Argentina – 2022
Short Film Intentionality Competition Award and Cine.ar Award for Best Argentine Short Film
Vienna shorts – Section: Worlds of labor – Austria – 2022
Youth Art Biennial – Short Film selection – Argentina – 2022
Atemporal – Film revolutions: emerging competition – Peru – 2022
Honorable Mention
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Doc Bahía blanca – Argentine short film competition – Argentina – 2022
Best national short film
KinoForum (International Short Film Festival of São Paulo) – Latin American selection – Brazil – 2022
MUTA (International Festival of Audiovisual Appropriation) – Latin American selection – Peru – 2022
Camden IFF – Documentary shorts – United States – 2022
Doc Buenos Aires – Plans from around the world – Argentina – 2022
MIDBO (Bogota International Documentary Festival) – International selection – 2022
General Pico Film Festival – National Selection – Argentina – 2022
EFICE (Enneagram International Experimental Film Festival) – Experimental selection – Argentina – 2022
FICCh (Chascomus Film Festival) – Short Film Competition – Argentina – 2022
Best documentary short
FICE Ensenada Film Festival – Panorama – Argentina – 2022
Arica DOC – Short Film Competition – Chile – 2022
Ecuador Ethnographic Film Festival – Official Selection – Ecuador- 2022
FAN (Neuquén Audiovisual Festival) – Federal Short Films – Argentina- 2022
Special mention
Luz del desierto – National Short Film Competition – Argentina – 2022
Tenemos que ver – International Short Film Competition – Uruguay – 2022
Simultan (Transdisciplinary Platform and festival for emerging art, research and artistic experiments) – Show: The Changing and The Indeterminate – Romania – 2022
Juan Downey International Competition – International Competition – Chile – 2022
Festifreak – Festifreak expanded – Argentina – 2022
Festival Play video art and experimental cinema – National Category – Argentina – 2022
Award for best national film
BIM (Moving Image Biennial) – Official Selection – Argentina – 2022
The night of the short – Short Film Festival- Argentina – 2023
Pumpumyachkan – Asmitria – Experimental section – Peru – 2023
Radical Film Festival – Radical Latin America – Bolivia – 2023
Maipú Cine – FICCh Winning Short Film selection – Argentina – 2023
Vecine – National Short Film Competition – Argentina – 2023
