La tara

Amparo Aguilar

Argentina / Spain

- 2022

The Aguilar siblings, the descendants of the famous yet forgotten Aguilar Quartet, find the soundtrack of the only surrealist film shot in Argentina, ‘Tararira’, from 1936. On a round trip between Argentina and Spain, they review historical moments of rupture that were pervaded, inside their family, by artistic and political tensions. Amparo, Mateo, Manuel and Lucas prepare to revisit that family history by enacting different family characters, like the Marx brothers would have done, in order to understand when it was that everything was lost.

Amparo Aguilar

Originally from Mar del Plata (Argentina), she graduated from ENERC where she currently teaches, a job which she also performs at the National University of Mar del Plata. In addition, she is a programmer for the cinema area of the Kirchner Cultural Centre and has been part of the Cartelera Transfeminista collective since its creation. In 2010 she directed the short documentary ‘Furia travesti: una historia de trabajo’, which screened for years at LGTBi-themed festivals, and in 2012 she was awarded at the São Paulo Curtas Metragens Festival for her short film ‘VHS (Víctor hasta siempre)’. In 2019 she directed the documentary feature film ‘Malamadre’, awarded by Ibermedia and at WIP Femcine (Chile).