The Monument Hunter

A droll yet profound exploration of memory history forgetting and of course Raúl Ruiz After seeing a documentary about Portuguese neurologist Egas Moniz while low on sleep Jorge a Chilean filmmaker living in Greenpoint Brooklyn suddenly remembers visiting a statue of Moniz in a park somewhere in Santiago with his fatherwho also happens to be a neurosurgeon Jorge goes on a lengthy exploration of the city of his birth and all the way to Patagonia looking for the statue all the while pondering memories of his dad and the imaginary territories between his homeland and New York