Private Project

A robin in the room

An essay film starring an off-screen narrator who, one sleepless night, gradually encounters the nostalgia of a past love relationship. His inability to fall asleep is the vehicle that invites us to a journey through liminal and nocturnal spaces of Buenos Aires, crossed by fragmented scenes of everyday life. A bird, the copy of a famous painting and the memories of that bond will be entangled between the sordidness, the emptiness and the feeling of unreality to remain continuously awake.

  • Nicolás M. Pintos
    Director
  • Nicolás M. Pintos
    Writer
  • Zoe Gonzalez
    Producer
  • Nicolás M. Pintos
    Key Cast
    "Narrator"
  • Leticia Fraguela
    Art Director
  • Facundo Testino
    Assistant Director
  • Nicolás M. Pintos
    Sound design
  • Nicolás M. Pintos
    Film editor
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    Un petirrojo en la habitación
  • Project Type:
    Documentary, Experimental, Short
  • Runtime:
    9 minutes 48 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    March 7, 2025
  • Country of Origin:
    Argentina
  • Country of Filming:
    Argentina
  • Language:
    Spanish
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Digital Cinema Package:
    Unavailable
  • Quantum Intimacies - Screening & Exhibition
    New York
    United States
    June 20, 2025
    North American Premiere
    Official Selection
  • Picknic Film Festival - 16º Festival Internacional de Cine de Santander
    Santander
    Spain
    August 19, 2025
    European Premiere
    Official Selection
  • 20th WNDX Festival of Moving Image
    Winnipeg
    Canada
    October 4, 2025
    Canadian Premiere
    Official Selection
Director Biography - Nicolás M. Pintos

Nicolás M. Pintos (Bs As. 1992). He graduated in Image and Sound Design at the University of Buenos Aires, where he also teaches. He has directed one medium-length film and seven short films:

Coiffeur (2016), Temporary workers (2017), Vacation in the USA (2018), Essay: Where the true colors sleep (2018), The Hygieias (2018), winner of the INCAA Cine.Ar award, Necochea (2020), The Nest (2023) and A robin in the room (2025).

All his projects have been exhibited at various international festivals, in spaces and venues such as MOMus-Experimental Centre for the Arts, Museum of Contemporary Art of Buenos Aires, Archaeological Museum of Ancient Messene, UNAM, MATCA, SAREAN, among others.

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Director Statement

A Robin in the Room is a video essay with an off-screen narrator who, one sleepless night, comes face-to-face with the nostalgia of a past love relationship.

For me it is very important to have gone through the problem of insomnia and to be able to express it in this film. The narrator, as he says in the film, is there, but at the same time he is not. This is a common issue associated with sleep deprivation. It causes individuals to experience a loss of focus and an inability to accurately perceive your surroundings. One's existence unfolds within the confines of a parallel universe, obscured from the perception of conventional reality.

The description of insomnia in a poetic and detailed way, invites us to hop on a journey through the mysterious and nocturnal spaces of Buenos Aires, accompanied by glimpses of everyday life that feel like a dream. A journey through time, sensory memory and intimacy that proposes the sordidness of nocturnality.