JACKAL STORIES tells the stories of a young man from Buenos Aires suburbs, Francisco Cruzans, who was filmed from his first days of life and for more than 25 years, until today.
From there, an archive that links him to his maternal family, stands out for the frustrations and longings of parents, grandparents and great-grandparents to carry out the original desire to form a family.
ARGENTINA
director:
MARTIN FARINA
screenplay, editing & DoP:
MARTIN FARINA
2017, 70' , col.
produced by:
MARTIN FARINA
production:
CINEMILAGROSO
Statement of Intent
The possibilities of cinema offer the individual, the ability to venture and ask for an origin in their becoming: a common space in the otherness of time. Those moments that the camera records are predisposed, once projected on the screen, to interpellate the man in his conflicts and intimate situations.
The common element that stands out in all material is music. The story of Francisco converges with the family life of a group of musicians who are ready to record a disc, also under the aegis of the family, in a space full of cables and tape recorders, which is, in turn, the house where they live. The songs of the past are mixed with the songs of the present and all together are intertwined in a choral, poetic dynamics, seeking redress in the figure of the Jackal, to find some kind of common identity.
The jackal is a sacred animal that in Egyptian mythology had to decide the fate of the dead according to the purity of their souls. The jackal is also a carnivorous animal, monogamous, that will find a certain death, if the fatality reaches its unique partner. Jackals are also hired killers. Those who have no country, and act only for money. All these meanings converge in the possibilities offered by the film,
to mean the man in the bosom of his family group, and with him the scope.
Martín Farina was born in Buenos Aires in 1982. He has a degree in communications from the Universidad Nacional de La Matanza, where he also studied music and philosophy. Farina is a member of La Otra Radio, a radio program on cinema culture in Argentina. He regularly produces and directs industrial reels, music videos, and commercials. Fulboy marks Farina’s feature debut, and was selected by BFI Flare: the London LGBT Film Festival for its international premiere. In 2016 Martin Farina co-directed with Marco Berger Taekwondo. He've just finished his last work Jackal Stories - Cuentos de Chacales (2017).
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