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POSTCARDS FROM LAST SUMMER
Experimental, Fiction
United States
2021
14 min 40 sec
16mm
Color, B&W
1.37:1
Stereo
English Dialogue
Exhibition Format:
Digital
A 16mm fiction assembled from summer fragments, staged encounters, and performative drift.
Shot between the Everglades and Miami Beach, the film follows two young women through a loose sequence of tableaux, private games, and unstable rituals. Its visual language draws from music video, fashion imagery, road cinema, and diary film, but resists settling into a fixed narrative.
Completed in 2021 from footage shot over two weekends in 2018, Postcards from Last Summer treats youth as a surface already becoming memory: playful, artificial, luminous, and quietly estranged.
Original score by Ella Zwietnig
Screenings & Recognitions —
Videodrome 2; Marseille, France 2023
Kinoskop 4 Film Festival; Belgrade, Serbia 2022
Special Mention
Madrid International Short Film Festival; Spain 2022
Honorable Mention
Millenium Film Workshop; Open Screen; NY, USA 2022
New Wave Short Film Festival; Munich, Germany 2021
Winner Best Actress
Toronto Indie Filmmakers Festival; Canada 2021
Winner Best Short
New York Tri-State International Film Festival; NY, USA 2021
Finalist Best Short
Credits —
Emma (brunette): Isadora Leiva
Lola (blonde): Julia Steiner
Sorceress Voice: Ella Zwietnig
Director / Editor: Camilo Barria
Writers / Producers: Adriana Lodolo, Camilo Barria
Photography: Emil Royer
Composer: Ella Zwietnig
Additional Music: Florian Zwietnig
Audio Engineering / Recording: Florian Zwietnig
Camera: Krasnogorsk 3
Negative: Kodak
Laboratory / Scan: Colorlab, Maryland
Color finishing: Kromachrome
Filmed on location in Everglades National Park
and Miami Beach. Florida
© Camilo Barria / Machinista LLC. All rights reserved.