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Parsi

Film still from Eduardo Williams, Mariano Blatt’s film “Parsi”.
© Eduardo Williams, Mariano Blatt
  • Director

    Eduardo Williams, Mariano Blatt

  • Argentinia, Switzerland / 2018
    23 min. / Original version with English subtitles

  • Original language

    Spanish

“No es” (It isn’t) is a cumulative poem by Mariano Blatt, which is constantly written over the course of a lifetime. The text of the poem, a list of “what seems to be but isn’t,” to which verses are added over days, months, and years, can cover anything: images, people, memories, landscapes, phrases, ideas. With this list ringing in its head, Eduardo Williams’s film PARSI finds itself in a perpetual movement through spaces and around people. We are taken on a breathless ride through bustling neighborhoods, from person to person, thrown, dipped under water, rushed from image to image, creating in the process yet another poem which is caressed by, crashes into, and spins next to “No es.”
Eduardo Williams’s films explore a fluid mode of observation, looking for mutual relations and open adventures in a physical and virtual network. He believes that uncertainty can yield its own sources of beauty and forms of small-scale resistance through communal escape and shared complicity, so as to chart the rhythms of autonomy over automatism.

Eduardo Williams is a filmmaker living in Paris. In 2023, his video installation UN GIF LARGUÍSIMO was shown in the Forum Expanded exhibition.
Mariano Blatt is a poet and literary editor.

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