A Voracious Shadow

How much does a life change once it becomes a story? A story about memory, identity, and fatherhood by the internationally acclaimed Argentine writer and director Mariano Pensotti.

A story about fathers and sons in two different versions. Ascents and falls. Icebergs, ghosts, lived experience and its filmed version, shocking revelations, and comic twists. The work, which had its world premiere at the Festival d’Avignon in 2024, unfolds as a palimpsest of stories where truth, lies, and their representations coexist and collide. Just as climate change is melting the world’s ice, time seems to undo the myths that families forge around them.

The internationally acclaimed Argentine writer and director Mariano Pensotti creates a theatrical universe reminiscent of an impossible novel, “about missing fathers whose children mythologize and present fathers whose children despise.”

Because, after all, we are shaped by the stories we have inherited—and perhaps we spend our lives struggling to write our own.