Shady River
ABOUT
According to the myth still in force in the coal towns of Patagonia, if a woman enters a mine, the earth becomes jealous. Then, there’s collapse and death. Shady River starts from a dark personal experience to transform in a film about the silence of women who live in men's villages. How to film where our presence is prohibited? How to record the resonances of what doesn’t sound? As the fog and smoke from the power plant cover the town, the voices of the women of Shady River force their way between the white of the ice and the hum of the drilling machines, until blowing up the structure of silence.
Tatiana Mazú was born in 1989 in Buenos Aires. She’s a documentary, experimental and visual artist. Left-wing and feminist activist. Together with Joaquín Maito, she co-directed “The State of Things” (2012). Her short film “The International” (2015) participated in 40 international festivals. “Little Red Riding Hood“ (2019) and “Shady River” (2020) are her first solo films. Her films have been selected in Mar del Plata IFF, FIDMarseille, DocLisboa, FICUNAM, Festifreak, Transcinema, Cinélatino. Rencontres de Toulouse, FIDOCS, among others.