Language: Argentinian Year: 2007
La Antena (The Aerial) is a surprisingly little known film. After doing well in it's native Argentina, it sadly avoided the limelight elsewhere.
This beautiful film uses stark, black and white imagery to tell the story of a society that loses it's voice. Although the inhabitants are physically unable to speak, this film is packed with metaphors about a society controlled and oppressed by government.
The film is written and directed by Esteban Sapir who has done very little outside of his Argentinan home (other than a Shakira music video!) but he is someone who has clearly seen his fair share of '20's Noir. There are a lot of homages to cinema classics here with obvious references to silent cinema, in particular the 1920's German masterpiece 'Metropolis'.
This is a unique film with a story that is told in an original and creative style, delivering a take on a society that is not a million miles from home.
