Lisandro Alonso

Through a clearing in the dense jungle, the dead bodies of two young people appear. Twenty years later, an old man named Vargas is released from prison. So opens Lisandro Alonso's elegantly austere investigation of the boundaries between the natural world and the human, and the violence that lurks within them both. (Anthology Film Archives)

Argentino Vargas, who appeared in one of Alonso's previous works, Los Muertos, is invited to attend a special screening of the film, and travels from his small rural village to Buenos Aires for the event. When he arrives, however, Vargas discover only two other people have shown up -- Misael Saavedra, the protagonist of another of Alonso's films, and Alonso himself... (All Movie Guide)

A massive freighter pulls into a harbour in southern Argentina. Farrel, a member of the crew, tells the captain he's taking shore leave to see his ailing mother one last time before she dies. (viff.org)

Throughout Lisandro Alonso's trilogy (La Libertad, Los Muertos and Fantasma), the Argentinean director/screenwriter manages to inspire in the audience a true sense of awe and mystery while working with very few, beautifully simple ideas; it is precisely the economic and lean nature of the "storytelling" (if one may call it this) that's most captivating. (imdb)

Lisandro Alonso returned to La Pampa province to film his work, for which he recalls Misael Saavedra, the lead of his first film, La Libertad.

Début by Lisandro Alonso is about the length of one take from his features. Two boys are sitting on the street, drinking alcohol and talking. (imdb)

A father and daughter journey from Denmark to an unknown desert that exists in a realm beyond the confines of civilization. (imdb)

Veteran slow-cinema auteur Lisandro Alonso and actor Viggo Mortensen reunite for a free-flowing triptych of interconnected meditations on colonialism past and present. (www.miff.com.au).