A young man has just arrived from Europe and spends his days with his sister in an apartment in the Once neighborhood. While he gets used to his new life, he secretly dreams of the possibility that the cashier at a Chinese supermarket has some kind of interest in him.
2020 - Argentina / USA - 25 min
"Pinpin is a narrative in the form of a rarefied romantic comedy, which shares with the cinema of Eric Rohmer the willingness to yell to the protagonists so they fulfill what they put at stake, the desires they build. But precisely, as in Rohmer’s films, what’s important is the game and the desire, the exchange of looks, of words, of encounters. All of that plus their permanence, their insistence, their plausible return. In order to become obsessed, one has to have the chance of doing it, along with the impossibility of overcoming that floating state. Pinpin is built around a state of desire and of reserved movements to a neighborhood, to a nearby world whose promises seem close and obvious but become intangible, or at least divergent. Rohmer also knew that—the characters do not act like us, and in that discrepancy lies the desire to continue seeing how they don’t do that which we imagined we would have done."
Javier Porta Fouz - BAFICI
Read the interview with Jaime here
Cast
Tomas Wicz Boy
Delia Hou Cashier
Cecilia Czonorgas Sister
Nelly Cantero Rocio
Maria Emilia Durante Girl next door
Lucy Moon Supermarket girl
Fidel Vitale Friend
Chang Hung Cheng Merchant
Agustin Alejandro Rodriguez Kioskero
Morena Gallo Friend
Alan Bartolich Papelito Guy
Xiomara Tejera Call Girl
Crew
Director: Jaime Levinas
Screenplay: Jaime Levinas
Producer: Lindsay Calleran
Lucia Shapochnik
Flor De Mugica
Cinematographer: Nicole Velez
Sound: Facundo Giron
Sound Design: Noah Chevan
Music: Noah Chevan
Editor: Andrew Aaronson
Production Designer: Michael T. Jackson
Colorist: Maayan Gutterman
Poster Design: Kiki Gordon
Production Company: Bomba Cine
Technical Details:
Screening Format: DCP, ProRes, H264
Shooting Format: Digital
Aspect Ratio: 16:9
Sound: 5.1
Spoken language: Spanish, Chinese, French
Subtitles: English
Colour: Colour