Raul Alaejos

Who is Yanny Levkoff? Yanny is not someone familiar to us. His personal path is far from remarkable. He watches the world from a distance — a world he chose to leave behind. Now, in New York, the city where he was born, Yanny returns to confront what he walked away from four decades ago.

"Palacio" is an unexpected visit to an old hotel filled with mysterious and unsettling architectural symbols. Delving among them, the most delirious symbols turned out to be some of its 1,500 neighbors. Luis and Raúl Alaejos, uncle and nephew, arrived in Montevideo drawn by who-knows-what, and somehow ended up in one of the most extravagant buildings in the world: the Palacio Salvo.

There, Robert Peary, an American explorer, thought more than 100 years ago, that the only way for a human being to reach the North Pole would be to have children with Inuits, "to create a super-race that would combine the Eskimo strength and the shrewdness of the Westerner." Following in the footsteps of this extravagant theory, this film essay marches in search of that super-race.

Who is Yanny Levkoff? Yanny is not someone familiar to us. His personal path is far from remarkable. He watches the world from a distance — a world he chose to leave behind. Now, in New York, the city where he was born, Yanny returns to confront what he walked away from four decades ago.

"Palacio" is an unexpected visit to an old hotel filled with mysterious and unsettling architectural symbols. Delving among them, the most delirious symbols turned out to be some of its 1,500 neighbors. Luis and Raúl Alaejos, uncle and nephew, arrived in Montevideo drawn by who-knows-what, and somehow ended up in one of the most extravagant buildings in the world: the Palacio Salvo.

There, Robert Peary, an American explorer, thought more than 100 years ago, that the only way for a human being to reach the North Pole would be to have children with Inuits, "to create a super-race that would combine the Eskimo strength and the shrewdness of the Westerner." Following in the footsteps of this extravagant theory, this film essay marches in search of that super-race.

There, Robert Peary, an American explorer, thought more than 100 years ago, that the only way for a human being to reach the North Pole would be to have children with Inuits, "to create a super-race that would combine the Eskimo strength and the shrewdness of the Westerner." Following in the footsteps of this extravagant theory, this film essay marches in search of that super-race.