Satori Sur

Documentary / 76 minutes

To define Miguel Grinberg only as a journalist, writer and poet does not do him full justice. As a key driving force of the Argentine counterculture of the 1960s, his figure is equivalent to that of Allen Ginsberg and Jonas Mekas in the United States; it is no coincidence that he was a close friend and collaborator of both.

Satori Sur takes that correspondence as its narrative axis, while celebrating Grinberg's 80th birthday, surrounded by memories, unpublished texts, books never written and existential notes -all of which he himself calls "moments of soul emptiness"-, and describes his personal history and his journalistic and artistic achievements. This journey will lead him to reconnect with his friend Mekas. But something goes wrong with the connection and the video call communication is constantly interrupted. However, on both sides of the pan- carving between Buenos Aires and New York, the memories of these two friends will go far beyond nostalgia, questioning the dimension in which the past and memories dwell. "All our friends are gone and we are here," Mekas tells him shortly before his death. Grinberg himself will later correct this error of the universe: "We are indestructible".