Pin Boy

Based on surprising decisions and a gaze of enormous originality, Ana Poliak finds in a bowling alley’s back room the b-side of the world, and she portraits the life of a pinboy that works with a thoroughness level that seems very much like love. The pinboy from the title spent his adolescente in the darkness o fan unheard-of, arid extremely violent job and from that twisted place, from his micro-world, he is able to show a curiosity, a strangeness and a solidarity that magnetize. And Poliak achieves all this through a series of precise images, of essential shots that, at the same time, reveal the compromise with an austere realism, and are projected towards a kind of beauty that doesn’t sweeten the world it represents, but instead succeeds in transforming it into a poetic form of the immediate, the fleeting, the marginal. —BAFICI