THE NEWEST OLDS

Pablo Mazzolo, Argentina, 35mm, 15 min, 2022

The Newest Olds is the second installment in Argentinian filmmaker Pablo Mazzolo’s cinematic diptych exploring the natural and urban environment within and surrounding the border region of Windsor–Detroit. Completed seven years after the release of Fish Point (2015), Mazzolo’s revelatory study of light and landscape that animated the deciduous forest harbours and rare ecosystem at the southeastern tip of Pelee Island, The Newest Olds transforms Detroit’s iconic cityscapes, dislodging buildings from their foundations and collapsing the physical, political, and sensory boundaries between Canada and the United States through alchemical, in-camera, and optical printing techniques.

Pablo Mazzolo (1976). 10+ films since 2010; screenings at venues including New York Film Festival, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Cinéma du réel, Anthology Film Archives, Mar del Plata International Film Festival, San Francisco Cinematheque, Media City Film Festival, Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires, and (S8) Mostra de Cinema Periférico. MCFF Grand Prize (2013); MCFF Chrysalis Fellowship (2022). Lives in Buenos Aires, Argentina.