Panamerican Machinery
Neighboring Scenes 2017
January 26 - 31, 2017
After discovering that their boss has died and their pensions are nil, the workers at a manufacturing plant decide to lock themselves inside until they reach a decision about how to proceed.
Family businesses are hard to come by these days—and so are manufacturing plants. When the head of Panamerican Machinery dies on a Friday morning, his employees discover how rare their situation is: Don Alejandro had been paying them out of his own pocket, and that any severance or retirement funds are nonexistent. Rather than face the world that’s made them obsolete, the workers decide to lock themselves inside the plant until they reach a decision about how to proceed. Over the course of the weekend, everyone’s behavior grows increasingly strange. Shot on expired film stock, the film deftly moves between socioeconomic commentary and deadpan slapstick.
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