In February’s Cinema Sunset (February the 24th 2009) the artist Loes Hoeijmakers introduced the Argentinian film La Antena at ADA. This silent movie about communication had made a deep aesthetical impression on Hoeijmakers when it was shown at the 26th edition of the Rotterdam Filmfestival.

La Antena
Release: 2007

Runtime: 90 min.

Director: Esteban Sapir

Cast: Alejandro Urdapilleta, Valeria Bertuccelli

Synopsis
The inhabitants of a dystopian future-world have lost their voice, numbed by the sinister brainwashing effect of the television being pumped out by the so called Mr TV. The totalitarian Mr TV kidnaps the only person left with a voice, a haunting singer, who has an infant son with no eyes. The only way to smash Mr TV’s tyranny is to find the city’s abandoned transmitter aerial.