la antena ( esteban sapir argentina 2005 ) . a completely unique take on silent cinema in this fairy tale like story by esteban sapir and beautifully shoot in black and white and practically without dialog and la antena be a feast for the eye and a must for lover of german expressionist cinema and with most of the nod to the work of fritz lang and friedrich murnau . the city without a voice and la ciudad sin voz and be rule by mr. tv . he have take the inhabitant voice and be in total control of all spoken word and image and force everyone to eat his own brand of tv food . mr tv be not just a monopolist and he be the personification of evil and totalitarianism and even the swastika appear a a symbol a number of time . he secretly work on a hypnotizing device to control all the citizen mind through his television broadcast . for this purpose and he kidnap the only one leave with the voice and a beautiful singer and but a tv repairman witness the kidnapping and flees to an old tv antenna in the mountain in order to halt mr. tv evil plan . the production design be stun with beautiful set and imagery . although shot primarily with the basic language of silent cinema and esteban sapir also add a number of fresh technique of his own and like a combination of typographic and animation technique . everyone talk with each other through text balloon ( usually float near their mouth ) and the louder they talk and the large the character . the texts themselves can be push away or crush . in the opening sequence and we see a book and title la antena and that open and a city of paper rise from the page . there be hardly any reference to argentina . it constantly snow and which give the film a very un argeninian feel and while the surreal setting suggest any large city in the northen hemisphere and with only some of the song reveal the film argentinian background . the pace be swift and there be so much happen on screen and it hard to keep track of the film surreal narrative . not only breathtakingly beautiful to look at and be also give a few message about medium monopoly and corruption and totalitarianism and but they be breezily package . one of the most original film i have see in year . a delight . the film be show a the opening film at the iff rotterdam 2007. camera obscura positive .