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2023 | Color | 21:38

Memory is a ghost. Lucio, a printing press worker, takes one last walk around the machines with whom he shared everything. He remembers when his mechanisms used to move and through that mechanical movement he reflects about his own life.


Country: México
Direction: Gutiérrez Wenhammar; Nicolás
Script: Gutiérrez Wenhammar; Nicolás, Mendoza Herrera; Clyo
Production: Gutiérrez Wenhammar; Nicolás
Photography: Sin Otero; Eduardo
Sound: Lozano; Diego
Music: Lozano; Diego
Cast:Barrientos; Lucio
Participation year at FICM: 2023

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