Fantasma
France, Netherlands, Argentina
2006
63 Min
Color
1.85:1
Spanish
Synopsis
Director Lisandro Alonso offers an offbeat and wonderfully bizarre commentary on his singular filmmaking practice in this self-reflexive featurette which finds Argentino Vargas, the star of Los Muertos, wandering through the Teatro San Martin — the Buenos Aires home theater of the Cinemateca Argentina — in search of the film’s premiere. As Alonso’s camera slowly floats through the shadowy bowels of the building, striping bare the dingy backstage of the cultural apparatus, Fantasma offers a spirited commentary on the theatricality of even the most rigorously non-professional performance and of the cinematic ritual itself. —http://hcl.harvard.edu/hfa/films/2009octdec/alonso.html
Director
Lisandro Alonso
Born in Buenos Aires in 1975, Lisandro Alonso studied at the Universidad del Cine (FUC) and co-directed in 1995 with Catriel Vildosola his first short film Dos en la Vereda (1995). After working as assistant sound engineer in many short films and a few features and as assistant director of Nicolas Sarquis for his film Sobre la Tierra, Lisandro Alonso returned to directing, making his first feature. In 2003 he founded 4L, a production company based in Buenos Aires, to produce his own films. Lisandro Alonso’s first feature La Libertad (2001) was chosen for the Festival de Cannes (Un Certain Regard). His most recent productions, Los Muertos (2004) and Fantasma (2006), were also invited to Cannes, premiering in the Director’s Fortnight. —The Match Factory
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David Grillo
20Aug12
This is the end of his first film a third chapter. Nature speaks for itself. Our world and technology reconfigures nature for us and only us this world speaks of us and will do so long after were gone.
Coheed 2.5
28Sep11
It took me three attempts to see the film all the way through, but now I finally have it was worth it. As my first film by Lisandro, despite referencing previous work, its breathtaking; it tapped into my fascination with public environments, especially when you're alone in them like the characters are, and lets them and their surroundings 'breathe' on screen. The 2012 UK DVD release of 'Liverpool' is too long a wait.
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Phantasma--
By PolarisDiB on July 23, 2010
Phantasmagoria is the projection on smoke, the pre-cinematic origins of moving photography in an almost 3-dimensionality. Thus, we have Lisandro Alonso’s Fantasma, which is none of those things—simply… read review
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