Liv Schulman

Un círculo que se fue rodando

Composed of two parts, Un círculo que se fue rodando (A Circle that Rolled Away) unfolds between downtown Buenos Aires and the subtropical province of Misiones. In a succession of long takes, fifty-six characters wearing T-shirts with slogans rhythmically compose a long concrete poem as a tropical virus emerges, giving rise to a massive state of radical, yet questionable, empathy. Hovering between fiction and documentary, the film weaves in La Isla del Comecocos, a play performed by the patients and staff of the Ramón Carrillo Neuropsychiatric Hospital in Posadas for the past 20 years, only to reach a mythical pizzeria where everyone and everything seems to come back. The film approaches mental health as a collective condition and explores the capacity of language to affect bodies through an extended national choreography.

2026

Single-channel video installation, RED KOMODO 6K, 86 min