Julian Setton

An agoraphobic musician, locked up in his home, begins to live with a shadow cast on his wall; a shadow that has a life of its own. Meanwhile, between jobs, music, scripts, gymnasts and volleyball matches, the musician’s friends go on with their lives during the beginning of autumn in Buenos Aires.

Joaquin likes to hang around with friends, smoke pot and watch films. One night, Josefine stays with him and they have sex. The next day she is gone, leaving blood in the bathtub. After that, strange things start to happen to Joaquin. A fortune teller tells him the shocking truth. A daring, scary and disorienting debut with a fresh voice and a stoner sense of humour.

In 1977, the military government kidnapped Juan Herman in Bariloche. In 1985, Carlos Echeverría shot “Juan As If Nothing Had Happened”, a film that investigated the disappearance. Horacio – Juan’s brother – worked on the film but his testimony wasn’t part of it. 30 years later, I travelled to meet him.

Cecilia and Juan are at the boardwalk; she has just arrived from Aeroparque and tells him she has just lost her pregnancy, and that all she wants to do at that precise moment is get high. Juan doesn’t know very well how to react.