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Medium

Forum 2020
Medium is a film portrait of pianist and artist Margarita Fernández. Instead of retelling the story of a life, Edgardo Cozarinsky combines scenes of Fernández playing entire piano pieces with her reflections on music and art, memories of a specific concert, archive footage of performances in the 70s and encounters with her students. Brahms is the other protagonist of the film alongside Fernández, as everything seems to revolve around him for her: when she’s at the piano, in her stories and reflections, in her attempts to articulate what it means to make music, in her thoughts on passion. Fernández has an engagingly calm, intelligent and sensitive way of engaging with the world and the filmmaker and is more than an individual artistic personality in this film: Cozarinsky places her in an in-between space, making her visible as a mediator who builds bridges between the past and the present, between different generations, between scores and music, sounds and images and her art and that of cinema.
by Edgardo Cozarinsky
with Margarita Fernández, Diana Szeinblum, Carolina Basaldúa, Federico Gianera, Eduardo Stupía, Francisco Ledda, Valentin Basaldúa, Eugenio Monjeau Argentina 2020 Spanish 70’ Colour Documentary form

With

  • Margarita Fernández
  • Diana Szeinblum
  • Carolina Basaldúa
  • Federico Gianera
  • Eduardo Stupía
  • Francisco Ledda
  • Valentin Basaldúa
  • Eugenio Monjeau

Crew

Written and Directed by Edgardo Cozarinsky
Cinematography Constanza Sanz Palacios
Editing Iair Michel Attias
Music Johannes Brahms
Sound Design Gaspar Scheuer
Sound Julia Castro
Producers Constanza Sanz Palacios, Anibal Garisto
Executive Producer Anibal Garisto

Produced by

Constanza Sanz Palacios Films

Lumen cine

Edgardo Cozarinsky

Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1939. He works as a filmmaker and writer. His novels, short stories and essays have been translated into numerous languages.

Filmography

1971 … (Puntos suspensivos) (Dot Dot Dot); 71 min. 1977 Los aprendices de Brujos (The Sorcerer Apprentices / Die Zauberlehrlinge); 91 min. 1981 La guerre d'un seul homme (One Man's War / Der Krieg eines Einzelnen); 105 min., Forum 1982 1984 Jean Cocteau – Autoportrait d'un inconnu (Jean Cocteau – Selbstportrait eines Unbekannten); 66 min., Forum 1985 1995 Citizen Langlois; 60 min., Forum 1995 1996 Le Violon de Rothschild (Rothschild’s Violin); 101 min. 1998 Fantômes de Tanger (Ghosts of Tangiers); 87 min. 2003 Crepúsculo rojo (Red Sunset); 90 min. 2005 Ronda nocturna (Night Watch / Der Nachtschwärmer); 81 min. 2011 Nocturnos; 63 min. 2013 Carta a un padre (Letter to a Father); 63 min.

Bio- & filmography as of Berlinale 2020