Kasafilms HQ got mesmerized by this short Argentine documentary and its glorious static camera story telling. La Reina is a journey of an argentine girl on her path to become a carnival dancer. With this simple plot lays a unique approach to documentary work, where the decision to set the dialogue of the characters outside the frame. Making this child a subject of circumstances, and that her faith isn’t really hers. While grownups in form of coaches stylist and family members dictate her so called will.

The static camera and those close up shots. Tell a story of a different kind where most of the actions are not visible to the audience while all in frame actions are merely a reaction to the surrounding. This feel is portrait through the film and contributing to the plot Mystery. As if the girl doesn’t really wants to be a carnival queen where her desires are hidden from us unknowing her future and mostly living the life dictated by grownups.

Directed by Manuel Abramovich

Text By Greg Kotler