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Machines of the night

A drift between two cities, Berlin and Quito, day and night.
Have you ever stopped to think about how many calculations you make in a day? Prices, distances, inflation, schedules.
A sensitive voice and a drift linked to the borders of reason.
Do you see your breasts under the blue gown? Why did they leave me the necklace and take off my panties?
Where the sense of hegemonic logic breaks, blending documentary code with rhetorical features typical of science fiction.

  • Diana Orduna Garcés
    Director
  • Diana Orduna Garcés
    Writer
  • Diana Orduna Garcés
    Producer
  • Giulia Maria Reis
    Key Cast
  • Francisco Benincasa
    Sound Design
  • Gomar Fernandez Bosque
    Color
  • Francisco Galárraga
    Animation and Design
  • Mab Ciancio
    Consultants
  • Guido Bajaña
    Consultants
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    Máquinas de la noche
  • Project Type:
    Documentary, Experimental, Short
  • Runtime:
    8 minutes 46 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    April 1, 2024
  • Production Budget:
    5,000 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    Ecuador
  • Country of Filming:
    Ecuador, Germany
  • Language:
    Spanish
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Digital Cinema Package:
    Unavailable
Distribution Information
  • AVEPAVE FILMS
    Distributor
    Country: Ecuador
Director Biography - Diana Orduna Garcés

Diana Orduna (Ecuador, 1988) is a cultural manager, researcher, and filmmaker. She has studied Film in Buenos Aires (CIEVYC) and Guayaquil (UCSG), with a specialization in Artistic Practices and Politics in Latin America at the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters (University of Buenos Aires), and a master's degree in Cultural Studies of Latin America, at the same institution.
With ten years of experience as a production designer in films, she has immersed herself in the language of contexts that is central to all her projects. In 2020, she won the ADA Award for Best Production Design for her work in the film "La botera," and in 2023, she was selected to be part of Berlin Talents at the Berlinale Film Festival for her proposals and previous performance.
As a film director and artistic projects manager, she explores narratives where the sensory and intuitive enable interdisciplinary intersections in various formats such as documentary essays and installations.
Her short film "Nania 1988" won the award for Best Documentary Short Film at the Kunturñawi Festival and has been screened at festivals on all continents.

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Director Statement


Machines of the night began long before this film. It compiles in its narrative, as an audiovisual drift, different autobiographical ruptures. The conflict is glimpsed between questions, from whose tone two narrative courses emerge: modernity and hegemonic reason.
Certain experiences carry specific weight; audiovisual language is the language that allows me to address them. In disruptions of consciousness, images and sounds arrive without reason, just as ideas or thoughts whose drift is sought to be emulated throughout the short film.
Filmed between Berlin and Quito in 2023, plays with portals that make it possible to continue the narration between one continent and another. The style of the documentary essay flirts with science fiction when it invites inhabiting an altered dimension of reality and time.