A young man ends up making a documentary film about a little boy in a poor quarter of Buenos Aires. This social portrait successfully provides the starting point a career to which he will return 30 years later. He revisits locations and people from that time and attempts to reactivate relationships with his friends and family.
Mariano Pensotti shows both actions simultaneously in two adjacent spaces. By doing so, in Los Años he tells the story of a man through two different sections of his life in direct comparison. His wife, his daughter and his friends age along with him – but, of course, so do his dreams and visions. Ideas and ambitions on one side, projects and disillusionment on the other. 2021 vs. 2051. As the narrative is not historical but projected into the future, its playing with time is often strangely comic, but also tragically sad. Los Años shows our present as our future past. Not a pretty sight.
Photo: Isabel Machado Rios, Ruhrtriennale 2021
Photo: Isabel Machado Rios, Ruhrtriennale 2021
Foto: Isabel Machado Rios, Ruhrtriennale 2021
Photo: Isabel Machado Rios, Ruhrtriennale 2021
Photo: Isabel Machado Rios, Ruhrtriennale 2021
Photo: Isabel Machado Rios, Ruhrtriennale 2021
Photo: Isabel Machado Rios, Ruhrtriennale 2021
Photo: Isabel Machado Rios, Ruhrtriennale 2021
Photo: Isabel Machado Rios, Ruhrtriennale 2021
Photo: Isabel Machado Rios, Ruhrtriennale 2021
Photo: Isabel Machado Rios, Ruhrtriennale 2021
- With Bernardo Arias Porras, Mara Bestelli, Paco Gorriz, Bárbara Masso, Marcelo Subiotto, Diego Vainer
- Text & Direction Mariano Pensotti
- Production Grupo Marea
- Stage Design & Costumes Mariana Tirantte
- Music Diego Vainer
- Lighting Design David Seldes
- Video Martín Borini
- Sound Ernesto Fara
- Props Juan Reato
- Dramaturge Aljoscha Begrich, Martin Valdés-Stauber
- Artistic Production Management Grupo Marea Florencia Wasser
- German Translation Svenja Becker, Miriam Denger
- English Translation Ian Barnett
- Surtitles Eva Salom (PANTHEA)
- Technical production management Jonas Pim Simon, Hanna Kriegleder
- Stage Master Marcel Homack
- Stage Machinery Stefan Wickop, Florian Obermeier
- Lighting Maximilian Kraußmüller
- Sound Johann Jürgen Koch
- Video Ikenna David Okegwo
- Make-up Caroline Montfort
- Costumes Arite Pissang, Fabiola Maria Schiavulli
- Props Heidemarie Sänger, Anette Schultheiss, Wolfgang Staudinger
- Carpentry Erik Clauß
- Locksmithery Friedrich Würzhuber
- Decoration Gundula Gerngroß
- Scenic Painting Evi Eschenbach
