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Jardin de Sueños (2014)

Jardin de Sueños (2014)

  -   Documentary | History | Romance

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In 1979 acclaimed English maze designer Randoll Coate designed, at the request of the writer Susana Bombal, one of Borges great friend, a symbolic maze to tribute this great Argentine writer. 25 years later, Susana's nephew Camilo Aldao (h), upon discovering of the existence of this design, began a plan to build it in Los Alamos, a farm of 1830, property of Susana Bombal, with the landscape architect Carlos Thays and Borges widow María Kodama. There, in San Rafael, South of Mendoza, in the same place where Borges used to spend some summers in the 1930s. The labyrinth imagined by Coate occupies an area of almost one hectare, and consists of over 9000 buxus shrubs. Within this are many borgesian symbols : a mirror, an hourglass, a tiger's face, a blind cane and even Moebius Ribbon. In it you can also read the writer's first and last name, the widow's initials, and at the same time it has the form of a book opened to the universe . The documentary is a reconstruction of this story, with the testimony of several of its characters, and look over one of the most unique landscape works of the continent. The same design has two replicas: one in Tigre (Buenos Aires) and the remaining in Venice, Italy. Art, literature, friendship, poetry, are the elements that distinguish this documentary, which shows behind the scenes of a work that seeks to honor the memory of Borges.
Directors:
Javier Tanoira | Alejo Yael
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