The New Ruins

Date:: 8 Dec 2024, 17:00–18:35

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A diary of an experimental journey through a world overflowing with technological litter in the company of an opinionated cat. Russian premiere as part of the Family Album film programme.

Las ruinas nuevas
2024, Manuel Embalse

Argentina
89 minutes, Spanish with Russian subtitles

Documentary

Argentinean Manuel Embalse calls himself an amateur archaeologist: the subject of his obsession is the digital age trash. Broken screens, tattered wires, dated monitors—all of this overfills modern landscapes, and Embalse tries to understand where this invasion will lead.

Shot from The New Ruins, 2024

With curiosity and verve, The New Ruins peers into the glow of the screen and searches for meaning in the traces of modern-day fossils.

— From the synopsis for the screening at Doc Fortnight festival

His reflections are relevant and heartfelt, the voice-over sounds intimate or menacing, but never apocalyptic. No wonder, for the director is accompanied on his wanderings by his own cat.

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