“The wound and the knife”: Miguel Zeballos’ film arrives at the Gaumont

“The wound and the knife”, the film by Miguel Zeballos, arrives at the Gaumont Cinema (Avenida Rivadavia 1635) on Thursday, June 30 with daily performances at 5:30 p.m., and can be seen until Wednesday 6 in room 2. The film had its world premiere during the 21st BAFICI, within the Artists in Action section. It is a documentary that records five years of the creative process of the artist Emilio García Wehbi (2014 – 2019), a series of fictional scenes that dialogue with his work and a kind of essay on the body. 

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In that sense, the staging is located in the fragment, not only in the fragments of Wehbi’s works, but also in those of the bodies that make up those works. Thus, a little adrift and with a puzzle structure, the director manifests a constant willingness to jump into the void, thus the film denies itself as a closed work, but rather, what it tries to be is a draft, the loose notes that survive its own process.

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“The wound and the knife had its passage through the Cinema platform. But I decided not to keep the film online basically because I believe that this particular material generates its true power when it is screened in a theater,” says the director in a press release, which believes it is essential that the film is seen on the big screen in its functions in Gaumont. During this process, the intimate work of creating García Wehbi’s most emblematic works was recorded, including 58 clues about the body (in Timbre 4 and at the Haroldo Conti Cultural Center), Vertigo (At the Faculty of Law), Napoleon (At the CCK), Orlando (At the San Martín Theater) and more.

Original source in Spanish