Everything That Is Forgotten in an Instant

An essay on the construction of identity, in particular the American identity. Woven from black and white 16mm images filmed by Shpuntoff over the past 16 years after moving to Buenos Aires – workers rebuilding a sandbox in a plaza, marches and protests, the city seen from the window of a bus, family life –, and interviews that he recorded with his father in Hi8 video in the Lower East Side of New York, where he grew up during the Great Depression, a bridge between the filmmaker’s two worlds emerges: Argentina and the United States, Buenos Aires and New York.