A Useful Life On DVD

Jorge (45) lives with his parents and has been working at a Film Archive for 25 years. He is a film programmer, he makes technical support, and he conducts the film news show at a radio station in Montevideo. Without any other job experience than working at the Film Archive, Jorge loses his position. A Useful Life explores the way Jorge changes his way of living in order to adapt to the new world that appears to him. After all, maybe ‘movies’ will help him survive.

‘La vida útil’ in Spanish means the estimated duration that an object is capable to function correctly.

In the film I ask myself about the future of a character conceived for an activity about to finish its existence. The ‘reborn’ or the adaptation of that character to his new world is what interested me to develop in the film.

The main character, drowned in movies, will find the reply to his life in a cinematographic way.

I like to think about Jorge as a ‘Don Quixote’, whose background allows him to start living his own adventures; and I think that’s the only way he has to survive.