FOR THE MONEY (Por El Dinero)
Dir. Alejo Moguillansky, 2019
Argentina, 79 minutes
In Spanish and French with English Subtitles

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 2 - 7:30 PM
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 7 - 10 PM
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 16 - 7 PM with filmmaker Q+A (This event is $10.)
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 19 - 5 PM

“We were workers of luxury. And nobody was rich enough to pay us. We had to be at the same time the actor and the cameramen. We had to be at the same time the painter and their muse. The poet and the landscape. The rifle and its prey. The rider and the horse. Don Quixote and Cervantes all at once.”
Invited by the Argintinian government to make a short documentary about the staging of his independent play, Por El Dinero, Moguillansky took the money and equipment and instead made an absurd heist film about the vicious allure of money. Casting the actors of the original production as themselves (including Moguillansky himself), the film follows a critically-lauded theater troupe stuck wallowing in obscurity and financial debts until a theater festival in Colombia invites them to perform their play. While the show mainly consists of each actor giving a long rundown of everything they have ever made or spent while the rest of the ensemble perform silly dances and sing punk songs about how much they hate money, as soon as the troupe discovers that the festival has a big cash prize for the best play, greed predictably sets in. Tragedy, comedy, and bare-bones reenactments of Asterix and Obelix ensue.