Short film
La exposición de París
2022 · 22 min
A dry, quietly chilling bureaucratic exchange that makes historical cruelty feel eerily ordinary and close.
- Directed by
- Alejandro Fadel
- Overview
- 1889. On the occasion of the Centennial Celebration of the French Revolution, Argentina sends a dozen Selk'nam Indians to the Argentinian Pavilion at the World's Fair. The epistolary exchange between a French and an Argentine diplomat reveals the absurd horror of the bureaucracy involved in creating a Human Zoo.
- How it feels
- Measured and needs your attention.
- About
- Colonialism, race, power, corruption
- Content
- Mild violence and language. No gore or sexual content.
- Note
- Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown
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- Directed by
- Alejandro Fadel