Equilibrio inestable

This project is a short documentary audiovisual work, approximately up to 5 minutes in duration, that explores the relationship between inside and outside through minimal gestures of everyday life. Through close-up shots with a handheld camera, the work focuses on seemingly banal situations—public transportation, bodies in urban space, contact between strangers—in order to make visible what usually goes unnoticed in daily routines.

The short film is constructed through the contrast between different experiences of everyday life, using images recorded both in Germany and in Buenos Aires. What for those who grew up and lived in Argentina was part of a shared and familiar daily life is confronted with what those same gestures imply in the German context. The project situates itself within this cultural clash, observing how practices normalized in one place become strange or illegible in another, and how this friction reconfigures the perception of public space and the relationships between bodies.

The images build an intimate realism based on situations, spontaneous actions, and material traces of inhabiting: movements of hands and feet, trajectories, displaced objects, remains of the street, urban rhythms. Faces and explicit expressions do not occupy a central place; instead, meaning emerges from the relationship between what is seen and what is heard. But for whom is the everyday familiar? For those who have always lived there? For those who arrive from elsewhere? These questions remain open.

In dialogue with the OUT / SIDE / IN framework of the 48h Neukölln festival, the project understands borders not as fixed lines but as relational and shifting spaces. Both the image and the poetic voice-over—spoken in Spanish, with subtitles in German and English—can function as inside or outside depending on the perspective of the viewer. Through small frictions and displacements, the boundary appears as a space of constant negotiation.