The Monument Hunter
Art of the Real 2016
April 8 - 21, 2016
After seeing a documentary that triggers a long-lost memory of visiting a park with his father, a Chilean filmmaker living in Brooklyn goes on a wild chase to track down a statue.
A droll yet profound exploration of memory, history, forgetting, and, of course, Raúl Ruiz. After seeing a documentary about Portuguese neurologist Egas Moniz while low on sleep, Jorge, a Chilean filmmaker living in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, suddenly remembers visiting a statue of Moniz in a park somewhere in Santiago with his father—who also happens to be a neurosurgeon. Jorge goes on a lengthy exploration of the city of his birth and all the way to Patagonia looking for the statue, all the while pondering memories of his dad and the imaginary territories between his homeland and New York.
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