Portrait of Mondongo

Llinás’ attempted portrait of Argentinian art collective Mondongo manifests itself instead as a tragedy of lost friendship (and with it a lost film), and a film about the loss of youth and the complexity of ego. But this being the singular Llinás, the film’s sincerity and transparency is punctuated with deviation and wry humour, to make its truths difficult to locate—using cinema as a tool for play, for thought, for fabricating and memorialising memory. As we watch Llinás type on his computer, every portrait is a self-portrait, and every self-portrait approaches the act of self-destruction.