DocNomads film selected to CPH:DOX, Denmark
Mariana Castiñeiras’ graduation film EXOSKELETONS will have its European Premiere at the 20th CPH:DOX International Film Festival held between 15 and 26 March in Copenhagen. The film premiered in HotDocs Canada 2022, and recently won the Best Short Film Award at José Ignacio Film Festival in Uruguay.
Also in CPH:DOX will be premiering in the main competition MOTHERLAND, a feature-length documentary co-directed by DocNomads alumnus Alexander Mihalkovich.
By Mariana Castiñeiras (Uruguay) • 18’ • 2022
Synopsis:
An exoskeleton is a kind of external shield that protects creatures like beetles, butterflies, moths, caterpillars, ants and ladybirds. And Uruguayan director Mariana Castiñeras has an ingrained phobia of all of them, which she decides to confront once and for all. Together with a passionate beetle collector, she goes on an expedition deep into the forest to capture the micro world of insects with her camera, before the beetle collector catches them in his net. In doing so, Castiñeras confronts her own fear of insects in a series of beautiful and colourful close-ups, in which she uses her phobia of the little bug as an opportunity to reflect on life, death and the limits of knowledge.
In CPH:DOXl catalogue