The Bus Station

Story

DOCUMENTARY People come and go at a bus station in Argentina. Like a kaleidoskope, the film offers fragmentary views of the place, a cinematic experience of light and shade. A bus station in the North of Córdoba stands in darkness. Waiting, the arrivals and departures of the local bus routes dictate the rhythm of the workers and travellers. A place of transit, where the traces of the people who populate it echo and fade, and the mysterious rubs shoulders with the everyday. Voices overlayer the pictures – creating stories of encounters and farewells.

Director

GUSTAVO FONTAN (*1960 in Banfield, Argentina) graduated Bachelor of Arts in the Faculty of Arts and Philosophy at the University of Buenos Aires and studied Film Directing at the Centro Experimental de Realización Cinematográfica (ENERC). His films delve into the crosses between fiction–reality and literature-cinema. As a teacher, he serves on the Faculty of Social Sciences UNLZ and Faculty of Fine Arts at the UNLP. Outside the country he has given lectures, workshops and seminars at universities in Spain, Italy and the United States.

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