¡PíFIES! (from the Spanish slang, "mistake") is the kind of film I would like to see when I screen home-movies, but that I never end up finding. From clippings of my own collection of home- movies, I built a rhythmic collage where at first the focus was placed on the films technical problems: violent pans, out of focus, insane zoom-ins, abrupt cuts, or what would have been discarded by the autor instead of being kept in the final cut. However, ¡PíFIES! ends up being an eulogy to home-movie filmmaking, to the construction of these amateur handmade films, to the filmmakers who shoot their families, their exotic trips, their daily lives so that they are remembered.
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