A company logo flashes up on screen, then a lengthy shot of its premises, filmed from a car, close to dawn; 24 more companies will get shown the same way. The images could be right out of a spy thriller if it weren’t for the voiceover, read by the director himself, taken from “Corporate Accountability in Crimes Against Humanity”, detailing the involvement of all these companies in the dictatorship’s crimes. Vast sums of money, collusion of all kinds, lists of names that grow ever longer, even as these companies are clearly still operating: corporate accountability seen, heard and felt. (JL)
-Berlinale - 2020
-Cinema du Reel - 2020
-FICUNAM - 2020
-IndieLisboa - 2020 -BAFICI - 2020
Jonathan Perel is a filmmaker born in 1976 in Argentina. He lives and works in Buenos Aires. He attended a degree in Arts at the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters (University of Buenos Aires). He directed the feature films Toponimia, Tabula Rasa, 17 Monumentos and El Predio, and the short films 5-T-2 Ushuaia, Las Aguas del Olvido, Los Murales and 5 (cinco). His films have been screened and awarded in numerous international film festivals, such as: Berlinale, Viennale, IFFR Rotterdam, FIDMarseille, YIDFF Yamagata, BAFICI, OUFF Ourense, La Havana, Underdox, Porto/Post/Doc, Rencontres Internationales Paris/Madrid/Berlin. Two times awarded with the Metropolitan Fund for the Arts and one time with the National Fund for the Arts (FNA). His works have been exhibited at Palais de Tokio (Paris), Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Berlín), Museum of the Moving Image (New York), Arsenal Institut für Film und Videokunst (Berlin), Museum of Modern Art MAMBA (Buenos Aires) and Memory Park (Buenos Aires).