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Gaucho Gaucho

Description

GAUCHO GAUCHO is a documentary film about an ensemble of iconic gauchos living beyond the boundaries of the modern world. It weaves together a mosaic of tales about gauchos confronting the fragility of their world in the face of unprecedented change. The stories follow the lives of men and women of different ages, backgrounds, and talents who are all connected in their fight to remain free.

A gaucho is a South American cowboy. They travel on horseback, accompanied by their dogs as they move their cattle through landscapes of staggering beauty. The handmade clothing they wear, woolen ponchos, bombacha trousers, and boina hats, are signs to the outside world that they will remain forever free, unshackled by the boundaries and bindings of the modern world.
They are a community suspended in time, floating between the past and present, dream and reality. Their identity is a convergence of mythologies forged in a land that has refused to cede its wild soul. Their forebears were the rebels that took up arms to fight for freedom against the Spanish. Today, they remain outsiders, the renegades holding the line against an invasion of modernity that seeks to replace the bonds of community and connection with the sterile sameness that has swept across the globe.

YEAR 2024
CATEGORY Feature
COUNTRY U.S.A./Argentina
RUN TIME 84 min
LANGUAGE Spanish
SUBTITLES English subtitles

Credits
Directors: Michael Dweck / Gregory Kershaw
Producers: Michael Dweck / Gregory Kershaw / Cameron O'Reilly / Christos V. Konstantakopoulos / Matthew Perniciaro
Executive Producers: Jenny Raskin / Geralyn White Dreyfous / Emily Bock / Laszlo Bock / Nina Fialkow / David Fialkow / Marni Grossman / Adam Lewis / Melony Lewis / Meadow Fund / Shari Sant / Regina K. Scully / Nathalie Seaver / Jake Stern / Jim Swartz / Susan Swartz / Grazka Taylor / Jamie Wolf
Associate Producer: Cecilia Luppi Dweck
Editor: Gabriel Rhodes

Guada and Tati, 2024
Medium: Archival pigment print
Signed, dated and numbered
Size: 13h x 27w
Edition: 1/50

Also available in 19h x 40w

Michael & Gregory curated a selection of their favorite images from the film to be presented as a gallery show.

A portion of the sale of the film stills will be donated to impact programs Michael & Gregory have established in the Salta region. The impact programs focus on water availability and purity as well as the general needs of the community they filmed. These philanthropic initiatives reflect the filmmakers' dedication to making a positive impact on the region that served as the backdrop for their evocative documentary.

These film stills can be purchased directly through Gaucho Gaucho Productions or through the Utah Film Commission for a tax deductible contribution. Please contact us if you are interested in seeing the entire collection of film stills and/or purchasing any.