Un círculo que se fue rodando
Liv Schulman
2024

In the streets of Buenos Aires’ Microcentro, in December 2023, a group of forty characters wearing T-shirts printed with axioms move through a strange choreography, dispersed across five long takes. The camera travels through streets, banks, and bars, collecting words and organizing meaning as a long poem gradually takes shape. Characters appear and disappear from the frame, positioning themselves alongside one another on the stage that is the street, reorganizing the sense of what is evoked and set into motion.

Through the arrangement of the characters and the soundscape that envelops the entire scene—including what remains off-screen—with dialogues that enter and exit, recounting personal and collective anecdotes, the film attempts to construct a kind of psychiatric portrait of a postcolonial society obsessed with esotericism, psychoanalysis, and the economy of vanished institutions, as the advent of a new revolutionary contraceptive method comes into focus.

Liv Schulman (b.1985, Buenos Aires, Argentina) works through film, performance, and writing. She stages the contradictions of subjectivity within systems of language, labour, and belief. Her hybrid fictions—part television series, part philosophical farce—reflect on how desire and ideology shape speech. Schulman’s work has been presented at Centre Pompidou, Museo Reina Sofía, SMK Copenhagen, and Steirischer Herbst, among others. She was a resident at Villa Médicis and DAAD Berlin and received the Prix Ricard in 2018. Schulman lives and works between Paris and Buenos Aires.