A NIGHT AT PALADIUM
Dir. Francisco Novick
Argentina, 87 min, in postproduction
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Format:
Documentary feature
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Status:
In postproduction
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Festivals and awards:
Mar del Plata IFF 2023 (Work in Progress Competition)
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Supported by:
INCAA, Buenos Aires Tax Shelter, Buenos Aires Metropolitan Fund, National Fund for the Arts
SYNOPSIS
Paladium is a mystery. At some point, it was one of the most lively and trend-setting night temples in Buenos Aires, where performers and pioneers of the queer movement, old tangueros and the new wave of Argentine rock would coexist with virtue and freedom. Today, like the rest of downtown Buenos Aires, is barely a ghost, demolished, abandoned, with no archive material or tributes. Francisco Novick is the son of one of its creators, but his father refuses to talk to him about the subject. With the burden of that absent cultural and family past, he sets out to reconstruct the experience of going there alongside the community that turned it into an emblem. Even if it is for just one night.
A NIGHT AT PALADIUM produced by COLECTIVO RUTEMBERG cinematography PATRICIO TOSCANO editing NATALIO PAGÉS sound CECILIA ASSALINI original soundtrack FERNANDO NUÑEZ IZU archivist NAHUEL BARISANI line producer NICOLE FAKTOR associate producer FEDERICO NOVICK directed, produced and written by FRANCISCO NOVICK