Todo documento de civilización

A crossing of avenues that is, at the same time, the border between the city of Buenos Aires and the suburbs. Every day, thousands of people pass through it on their way to their workplaces. Buses, traffic lights, asphalt, concrete, a rusty sign. A person who goes to study, another who sells tortillas; public lighting and electoral propaganda; cell phone and hamburger advertising. The image of normality. “Every document of civilization is, at the same time, a document of barbarism,” said Walter Benjamin when looking at the capitalist catastrophe against the grain. The reality is a mass grave; this film, a process of excavation. Or the dissection of the landscape where, ten years ago, the final trace of a teenager was lost in the hands of the police.