Unlimited Edition is a set of four short films (called chapters) that reflect on books, reading and writing, all directed, in turn, by versatile artists (they are directors, writers, actors). It was exhibited online in the framework of the 35th Mar del Plata Festival.
Chapter 1, written, directed and performed by Edgardo Cosarinsky, has to do with physical difficulties for reading (and reading modes) and begins in a bar where the protagonist asks for help to read a book and then faces a medical consultation to solve your vision problem. The selected books are not casual and the tone is that of an elegant comedy alternated with a medical chapter of unusual frankness.
Chapter 2, written and directed by Santiago Loza, narrates the encounters between a refined and mature poet (Juan Manuel Casabelos) and a young aspiring poet (Alan Cabral) who arrives in Buenos Aires from the town from which they both originate. He wants to read his poems to the first and to guide him as a writer. The tone is comedic too, but with a subtle and accomplished dramatic crescendo.
Chapter 3, written and directed by Virginia Cosin, portrays a young writer with an already published book (Katia Szechtman) in the context of a party in the artistic and cultural environment that she always wanted to enter and belong to. Unfortunately, the story is dominated more by an almost constant voice-over of the protagonist rather than by her interactions in the meeting.
In Chapter 4, written and directed by Romina Paula, we attended a literary workshop (it could also be a pre-rehearsal work table) on a play in which a film is rehearsed. The procedure is that of the so-called "setting into the abyss" (in this case redoubled) since the boundaries between the participants and their characters are blurred, between what they comment and the texts and parliaments from which they analyze or learn. Those of us who have ever listened to some of these tables from the outside, I can assure you that the metafictional confusion that takes place is very well reflected in this chapter, which ultimately discusses the structures of reality and fiction.
In short, a varied set (like its authors) and balanced of shorts that reflect on the inexhaustible theme of reading and writing.
