Blanco en Blanco
Around 1900, Pedro travels to southern Chile to photograph a wedding, but ends up capturing the genocide of the Selk’nam people.
Pedro arrives in Tierra del Fuego, a violent, unforgiving place, to photograph the wedding of a powerful landowner named Mr. Porter. His future wife, still a child, becomes an obsession for Pedro. In an attempt to capture her beauty he betrays the forces of power that dominate these lands. His betrayal is discovered and he is punished. Unable to escape, Pedro is instead forced to become a complicit participant in a new society being built through the genocide of the Selk’nam people.
Théo Court, Spain, Chile, France, Germany, 2019, 100 min. Spanish & English spoken, English subtitles.
With Alfredo Castro, Lars Rudolph, Ignacio Ceruti, David Pantaleón, Esther Vega Perz.