The Despair of the Monkeys (movie)
La desesperación de los monos- Production country: Argentina, France
- Producer: Julián García Long
- Production companies: Le Fresnoy National Studio for Contemporary Arts
- Genre: Documentary
- Release date: 12/31/2022
- Run time: 17 min.
Movie description
The first films of Patagonia - where I grew up - show a territory that no longer exists, as the araucarias, millenary trees from the Patagonian forests, were in part replaced by more productive pines. Near my new home, in Belgium, I find araucarias that adorn front gardens. We hear some girls playing in the car, pointing out araucarias on the road. How did these plants become a petty-bourgeois fashion in northern Europe? I confront these archives with contemporary technoscientific images, used by a lab to explore plant modifications. What can these modes of representation tell us about our time?