Alejo Moguillansky

Directing

Alejo Moguillansky

Born

1978-06-14 (48)

Place of birth

Buenos Aires, Argentina

Known for

Directing

Credits

49 titles

Born in 1978 in Buenos Aires Argentina. Alejo Moguillansky is a film director, screenwriter and editor, and a tenured professor at the Universidad del Cine. His films have been screened at festivals such as Locarno, Berlinale, Viennale and London, among others. He co-founded the production company El Pampero Cine.

Known for

Un Andantino poster
4.5

María Villar, Cleo Moguillansky and Alejo Moguillansky tried to read live -perhaps sing- a voiceover narrative in sync with the projection of a deleted scene of The Little Match Girl, between fiction, essay, exhumation, failure, and the time that goes by and is unforgiving.

Un Andantino

2023

Extraordinary Stories poster
7.7

X arrives in a small town and witnesses a violent act; Z takes the job of a dead manager and discovers that he had a notebook written in code and a map; H is hired to go down a river and investigate a series of mysterious monoliths built on the shore.

Extraordinary Stories

2008

The Gold Bug poster
5.5

Feminism, Victoria Benedictsson, Leandro N. Alem, the Radical Party in Argentina, suicide, stunts, Edgar Allan Poe, the complicated relationship between low-budget films with a political aim and the film industry, Robert Louis Stevenson, fiction, facts, greed, gold treasures left by the Jesuits in Argentina, the 19th Century vs. the contemporary and the search for truth and wisdom are the background for this portrait of a clash between a Swedish artist and an Argentine film director.

The Gold Bug

2014

The Middle Ages poster
7.2

A comedy during confinement? Probably so. A portrait of a little girl and her family during confinement? Apparently so. An absurd, Beckettian musical shot during confinement? Exactly, yes.

The Middle Ages

2022

Les Revenants poster
NR

A Chilean-Argentine intervention that mixes dance and cinema, in which outstanding dancers "come back to life" through their movements. They appropriate public and emblematic places in the city of Santiago that, paradoxically, are empty. Les Revenants is a work-installation consisting of six different dance solos, which were recorded in emblematic buildings in Santiago that were empty due to the pandemic. These records were projected in different places in the city -such as advertising posters, walls and screens-, in what was its premiere, during Santiago a Mil 2021.

Les Revenants

2021

Pin de Fartie poster
5.6

Pin de Fartie unfolds as a playful spin on theatrical adaptation and an experiment in character dynamics. The film charts three relationships defined by Samuel Beckett’s 1957 play Fin de Partie (Endgame): one between a blind man and his daughter; another concerning two actors rehearsing that same text; the third following a man who reads his blind mother Beckett’s play and discovers that it reflects their lives.

Pin de Fartie

2025

Film credits

2020s · 7 titles

Un Andantino poster
4.5

María Villar, Cleo Moguillansky and Alejo Moguillansky tried to read live -perhaps sing- a voiceover narrative in sync with the projection of a deleted scene of The Little Match Girl, between fiction, essay, exhumation, failure, and the time that goes by and is unforgiving.

Un Andantino

2023

The Middle Ages poster
7.2

A comedy during confinement? Probably so. A portrait of a little girl and her family during confinement? Apparently so. An absurd, Beckettian musical shot during confinement? Exactly, yes.

The Middle Ages

2022

Pin de Fartie poster
5.6

Pin de Fartie unfolds as a playful spin on theatrical adaptation and an experiment in character dynamics. The film charts three relationships defined by Samuel Beckett’s 1957 play Fin de Partie (Endgame): one between a blind man and his daughter; another concerning two actors rehearsing that same text; the third following a man who reads his blind mother Beckett’s play and discovers that it reflects their lives.

Pin de Fartie

2025

Chascomús poster
NR

At the end of the world, we follow the only two remaining creatures: One covered in grass and one covered in hair.

Chascomús

2022

Clementina poster
4.5

Everyone is locked up, but Clementina and the man she's quarantined with won't stop working. We know little about him, and even less about her: we just see over and over again her mysterious face, which seems to defy everything.

Clementina

2022

La noche submarina poster
7.0

In 2000 Alejo Moguillansky, Diego H. Flores and Fermín Villanueva filmed for three days aboard the ARA San Juan submarine. Twenty years later, Alejo Moguillansky edited that old material in this travel chronicle called The Submarine Night, narrated by Luciana Acuña and himself, written together with Mariano Llinás.

La noche submarina

2020

Clorindo Testa poster
6.5

Is this film about Clorindo Testa or not? Is it about the life of the director, about the life of his father, about the life of his country, or is it just one of those biographical films that proliferate at film festivals in which the narrator spends his time recounting family anecdotes and pulling old photos out of a box? This small, microscopic adventure, whose subtitle, stolen from the Savoyard Xavier de Maistre, could well be Voyage autour de mon père, navigates between these threats and others even worse.

Clorindo Testa

2022

2010s · 5 titles

Behind the camera

Un Andantino poster
4.5

María Villar, Cleo Moguillansky and Alejo Moguillansky tried to read live -perhaps sing- a voiceover narrative in sync with the projection of a deleted scene of The Little Match Girl, between fiction, essay, exhumation, failure, and the time that goes by and is unforgiving.

Un Andantino

2023

Un Andantino poster
4.5

María Villar, Cleo Moguillansky and Alejo Moguillansky tried to read live -perhaps sing- a voiceover narrative in sync with the projection of a deleted scene of The Little Match Girl, between fiction, essay, exhumation, failure, and the time that goes by and is unforgiving.

Un Andantino

2023

The Gold Bug poster
5.5

Feminism, Victoria Benedictsson, Leandro N. Alem, the Radical Party in Argentina, suicide, stunts, Edgar Allan Poe, the complicated relationship between low-budget films with a political aim and the film industry, Robert Louis Stevenson, fiction, facts, greed, gold treasures left by the Jesuits in Argentina, the 19th Century vs. the contemporary and the search for truth and wisdom are the background for this portrait of a clash between a Swedish artist and an Argentine film director.

The Gold Bug

2014

The Gold Bug poster
5.5

Feminism, Victoria Benedictsson, Leandro N. Alem, the Radical Party in Argentina, suicide, stunts, Edgar Allan Poe, the complicated relationship between low-budget films with a political aim and the film industry, Robert Louis Stevenson, fiction, facts, greed, gold treasures left by the Jesuits in Argentina, the 19th Century vs. the contemporary and the search for truth and wisdom are the background for this portrait of a clash between a Swedish artist and an Argentine film director.

The Gold Bug

2014

The Middle Ages poster
7.2

A comedy during confinement? Probably so. A portrait of a little girl and her family during confinement? Apparently so. An absurd, Beckettian musical shot during confinement? Exactly, yes.

The Middle Ages

2022

The Middle Ages poster
7.2

A comedy during confinement? Probably so. A portrait of a little girl and her family during confinement? Apparently so. An absurd, Beckettian musical shot during confinement? Exactly, yes.

The Middle Ages

2022

The Middle Ages poster
7.2

A comedy during confinement? Probably so. A portrait of a little girl and her family during confinement? Apparently so. An absurd, Beckettian musical shot during confinement? Exactly, yes.

The Middle Ages

2022

Les Revenants poster
NR

A Chilean-Argentine intervention that mixes dance and cinema, in which outstanding dancers "come back to life" through their movements. They appropriate public and emblematic places in the city of Santiago that, paradoxically, are empty. Les Revenants is a work-installation consisting of six different dance solos, which were recorded in emblematic buildings in Santiago that were empty due to the pandemic. These records were projected in different places in the city -such as advertising posters, walls and screens-, in what was its premiere, during Santiago a Mil 2021.

Les Revenants

2021

Pin de Fartie poster
5.6

Pin de Fartie unfolds as a playful spin on theatrical adaptation and an experiment in character dynamics. The film charts three relationships defined by Samuel Beckett’s 1957 play Fin de Partie (Endgame): one between a blind man and his daughter; another concerning two actors rehearsing that same text; the third following a man who reads his blind mother Beckett’s play and discovers that it reflects their lives.

Pin de Fartie

2025

The Little Match Girl poster
5.8

The sad story of Andersen's little match girl; the fate of Balthazar, Bresson's donkey; the impossible love affair between a militant of the Red Army Faction and an Argentinean pianist; the adventures in Buenos Aires of Helmut Lachenmann, who is trying to stage an insane opera; the problems of Marie, Walter and their daughter, who are trying to survive on very little money…

The Little Match Girl

2017

The Little Match Girl poster
5.8

The sad story of Andersen's little match girl; the fate of Balthazar, Bresson's donkey; the impossible love affair between a militant of the Red Army Faction and an Argentinean pianist; the adventures in Buenos Aires of Helmut Lachenmann, who is trying to stage an insane opera; the problems of Marie, Walter and their daughter, who are trying to survive on very little money…

The Little Match Girl

2017

Chascomús poster
NR

At the end of the world, we follow the only two remaining creatures: One covered in grass and one covered in hair.

Chascomús

2022

Chascomús poster
NR

At the end of the world, we follow the only two remaining creatures: One covered in grass and one covered in hair.

Chascomús

2022

Montage poster
NR

MONTAGE is a film record of the Montaje/Lachenmann recital presented by the Proa Foundation on November 8, 2013 in collaboration with the Contemporary Music Series. The recital project revolved around three Pieces for three soloists by Helmut Lachenmann, a nucleus that manifests itself as an index of radicalism from which a story of the direction that guides the career of its author can be undertaken. The program concluded with the simultaneous performance of those three Pieces, a version that appears in the Lachenmanian catalog under the name of Montage and for which there is no score or record. What is heard at the conclusion of this documentary could be the only record, so far, of that ghost version that the composer advises not to try.

Montage

2015

For the Money poster
6.0

A miserable Argentine troupe of actors, dancers, musicians, filmmakers and a girl embark on a theatre tour to some country, probably in Latin America.

For the Money

2019

For the Money poster
6.0

A miserable Argentine troupe of actors, dancers, musicians, filmmakers and a girl embark on a theatre tour to some country, probably in Latin America.

For the Money

2019

Chantal Akerman, an autobiography poster
NR

El Pampero records Chantal Akerman's visit to Argentina in 2005.

Chantal Akerman, an autobiography

2006

Un día de caza poster
NR

The grass men - That's my duck! - Silence, Dvorak! -Kill that fly - Eat grass - Walkie Talkies - Fly fishing - The fan episode - Tourists under the bridge - The boat has a life of its own! - An American Anthem - The Canoe Ride Some blond idiots - Photo! - Hit the partner - Buckets falling from the sky! - Hunting in the mountains - The car has spasms - A flying umbrella! - Kicks in the butt - The top of the mountain - Tire throwing - The car goes alone! To catch a wheel - The river - A Cordovan quartet - Conservative throw - The water wells - Combat with umbrella - Trap with towel - Hip break - Gomerazos - Some children in the river - Drowning Kill the partner - A heron in the waterfall - Cross the river - He's a man of grass! - A shotgun for a deck chair - Shoot your neighbor - Aaaahhhh !!! - The last laugh - Dying, reviving and dying forever on the mountain

Un día de caza

2019

The Parrot and the Swan poster
6.4

Loro, a sound recordist, meets Luciana, a dancer, and falls in love whit her. When she quits their ballet production and leaves, Loro looks for her in San Francisco, Argentina.

The Parrot and the Swan

2013

The Parrot and the Swan poster
6.4

Loro, a sound recordist, meets Luciana, a dancer, and falls in love whit her. When she quits their ballet production and leaves, Loro looks for her in San Francisco, Argentina.

The Parrot and the Swan

2013

Aquilea: Nueve pequeños films sobre 'Invasión' poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Aquilea: Nueve pequeños films sobre 'Invasión'

2008

Ai Weiwei en Buenos Aires poster
NR

The documentary registers with detail this first visit to Argentina. It's a meditation on the artistic and conceptual processes that Ai Weiwei needs to think of his art. The images dialogue between the director and his instagram, revealing an intimate side, close to the people.

Ai Weiwei en Buenos Aires

2018

Diario de el loro y  el cisne poster
NR

This film, Diario de el Loro y el Cisne, is one of the results of this process of writing directly over the images and sounds. It is made entirely from discarded material from the film Loro y el Cisne. I'm not entirely sure of the result. The only thing I can say about it is that it's extremely sincere.

Diario de el loro y el cisne

2019

Diario de el loro y  el cisne poster
NR

This film, Diario de el Loro y el Cisne, is one of the results of this process of writing directly over the images and sounds. It is made entirely from discarded material from the film Loro y el Cisne. I'm not entirely sure of the result. The only thing I can say about it is that it's extremely sincere.

Diario de el loro y el cisne

2019

Dear Antonioni poster
NR

Garbiñe Ortega, artistic director of Punto de Vista, devised the creation of a collective audiovisual project with the collaboration of the filmmaker Matías Piñeiro in which several filmmakers will make a filmed letter addressed to another filmmaker in the history of cinema that they did not know personally and that he was as far away as possible from his own cinema. Thus was born Las cartas que no fueron también son

Dear Antonioni

2021

Rockaby poster
NR

Film version of the work of Irish author Samuel Beckett. Carried out by the pianist Margarita Fernández, Alejo Moguillansky and Martín Bauer.

Rockaby

2022

No artwork available
NR

The theatre as a courtroom, the courtroom as a theatre. Alejo Moguillansky’s film draws loosely on Raúl Quirós Molina’s El pan y la sal (The Bread and the Salt), a 2015 verbatim theatre piece compiled from the testimonies provided during the 2012 trial of Judge Baltasar Garzon, for investigating the forced disappearances of the Spanish Civil War and the Franco regime. Juxtaposing the testimonies of the relatives of those who lost loved ones with references to Argentina’s and Chile’s recent dictatorships, this film explores issues around international law and forced disappearance - tracing a line between Francisco Franco, Augusto Pinochet and Jorge Videla’s Military Junta: Garzón has investigated Argentine torturers and criminal perpetrators and had Pinochet arrested in London in 1998 for crimes against humanity.

If it Please the Court

2022

La noche submarina poster
7.0

In 2000 Alejo Moguillansky, Diego H. Flores and Fermín Villanueva filmed for three days aboard the ARA San Juan submarine. Twenty years later, Alejo Moguillansky edited that old material in this travel chronicle called The Submarine Night, narrated by Luciana Acuña and himself, written together with Mariano Llinás.

La noche submarina

2020

La noche submarina poster
7.0

In 2000 Alejo Moguillansky, Diego H. Flores and Fermín Villanueva filmed for three days aboard the ARA San Juan submarine. Twenty years later, Alejo Moguillansky edited that old material in this travel chronicle called The Submarine Night, narrated by Luciana Acuña and himself, written together with Mariano Llinás.

La noche submarina

2020

Borges/Santiago: variaciones sobre un guion poster
7.0

Hugo Santiago discusses the process of writing with Jorge Luis Borges the screenplay for the film Invasión (1969).

Borges/Santiago: variaciones sobre un guion

2008

Castro poster
5.5

Four characters are looking for a man called Castro, but we don't know why. For some mysterious reason, Castro is running. He has left his life behind, and survives by hiding in a room in a small city. He is basically alone, but someone has appeared in his life, Celia. She is young, beautiful, and sometimes cruel.

Castro

2009

Castro poster
5.5

Four characters are looking for a man called Castro, but we don't know why. For some mysterious reason, Castro is running. He has left his life behind, and survives by hiding in a room in a small city. He is basically alone, but someone has appeared in his life, Celia. She is young, beautiful, and sometimes cruel.

Castro

2009

Jarry, Ubú Patagónico poster
NR

With scenes at times current and at others medieval, dramatic or overloaded with useless gestures, Jarry, Ubú Patagónico is a dialogue with “Ubú Rey”, by Alfred Jarry, and his decalogue about theatre. The work also explores Jarry's non-theatrical texts until the material is appropriated in its immateriality by a group of Patagonian Indians who take Mother Ubú prisoner.

Jarry, Ubú Patagónico

2023

Tres fábulas de Villa Ocampo poster
5.4

A fugitive, a fetishist and a detective walk through a mansion built in the 19th century on the banks of the River Plate. Within its walls, there are resonances, portraits of illustrious or unknown people, books, souvenirs, furniture from different periods and styles. At the heart of this secret order is a woman who has been portrayed throughout her life by painters of the Belle Epoque, by neoclassical sculptors, by avant-garde photographers. To reconstruct the history of these women, each of the visitors will create a fable, in which the essential names of the 20th-century culture are intertwined. Among the visitor to Victoria Ocampo's mansion we can mention the architect Le Corbusier, the composer Igor Stravinsky, the writers Graham Greene, Aldous Huxley, Waldo Frank, Albert Camus... You will also hear the whisper of two young writers cementing what will be a bond that will last for decades: Adolfo Bioy Casares and Jorge Luis Borges...

Tres fábulas de Villa Ocampo

2011

The Prisoner poster
6.5

Ana, Manuel and Leo, three young people in modern-day Buenos Aires, get caught in a spiral of coincidence and suspicion, misconduct and persecution. None of them is innocent.

The Prisoner

2005

The Prisoner poster
6.5

Ana, Manuel and Leo, three young people in modern-day Buenos Aires, get caught in a spiral of coincidence and suspicion, misconduct and persecution. None of them is innocent.

The Prisoner

2005