Film Projects by Nicolás J. Marinelli
Documentaries and Visual Narratives
Adriana is "mad" anyone who doesn't know her story might say.
It's true that Adriana has suffered from bipolar disorder since she was 19, a mental illness that has marked her personality and her relationships ever since, but reducing her experiences to a single word would be simplifying a rich human experience into a definition lacking depth.
Adriana is now 60 years old, has four children and three grandchildren. She has suffered physical and mental abuse, isolation, abandonment, loneliness and discrimination, but, nevertheless, thanks to an extraordinary inner strength, she has survived it all.
This documentary narrates, through a fictional device (time travel), the journey of Adriana and her eldest son. Both visit different scenes from her past in search of the mother of all questions: "why did this happen to me?"
And yes, as science says: "Adriana suffers from manic-depressive bipolar disorder," or as some say: "Adriana is mad" these will be hypotheses that we will put to the test. For now, what I myself can say as the director of this film is: Adriana is my mother.
Nicolás J. Marinelli
The South Island
South of Tierra del Fuego lies the Isla de los Estados: an inhospitable land shrouded in fog and mystery; where Kénos, the creator God of the Selknam culture, awakens after a long absence. Kenos travels around the island recalling the mythical history of the Selknam people, from their creation at the dawn of time to their extinction at the hands of the invader. Thus, Kenos sets out to find some modern vestige of the culture that once inhabited that southern island.
