Mariano Pensotti: Cineastas

Four filmmakers in Buenos Aires each start a new project, not knowing that the creative process will change their lives forever. Mariano Pensotti’s “filmic drama” is performed by a handful of actors seamlessly switching characters on an elaborate split-screen set that allows for fluid shifting between the characters’ lives and the films being shot. This critically acclaimed conceptual collision of art and life ingeniously adapts cinematic techniques for the stage—flashback, montage, cross-cuts, voice-over—to tell compelling stories of love, loss, joy, and despair. REDCAT introduced virtuoso director Pensotti on his first US tour with El Pasado es un Animal Grotesco (The Past is a Grotesque Animal) in 2012. In Spanish with English subtitles.