Aboard a cruiser that coasts through Southern Latin America, a sailor discovers a hallway mysteriously leading to an apartment in Montevideo. Thousands kilometres away, a group of Filipino peasants find an abandoned shed on a hill, assigning it supernatural powers.
Window Boy Would also Like to Have a Submarine
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“The film is full of enigmatic images, it’s a mystery box that slow but steadily unveils its protagonists, lonely characters that imbue the film with a sense of longing.”
“The film is full of enigmatic images, it’s a mystery box that slow but steadily unveils its protagonists, lonely characters that imbue the film with a sense of longing.”
Alex Piperno
Biography
Alex Piperno was born in Montevideo in 1985 and studied film direction at the Universidad del Cine de Buenos Aires. His short films were shown at festivals such as Cannes Critics’ Week, Bafici, Moscow, Huesca, Sao Paulo and Biarritz among others. Window boy would also like to have a submarine is his first feature film.
Filmography
- 2020 – Chico ventana también quisiera tener un submarino / Window boy would also like to have a submarine (feature film, 80 min)
- 2019 – Lloren la locura perdida de estos campos / Weep the headless madness of these fields (short film, 15 min).
- 2016 – Hola a los fiordos! / Hello to the fjords! (short film, 12 min)
- 2016 – Los cebúes / The zebus (short film, 15 min)
- 2011 – La inviolabilidad del domicilio se basa en el hombre que aparece empuñando un hacha en la puerta de su casa /The inviolability of the domicile is based on the man who appears wielding an ax at the door of his house (7 min)
