Sendero Verde
2018 · 5m · Argentina
Directed by Agustina González
Genres: documentary
Tones: contemplative, provocative
In a world where technology makes everything faster, including fashion, this documentary examines how the textile industry's waste is pushing environmental consequences toward the irreversible.
Picked by Margot
The scouts
A sincere doc about fast fashion's waste problem—exactly the kind of worthy, expected takedown that makes Felix's teeth itch; González isn't here to subvert the form or make us uncomfortable about our own complicity, just to show us the familiar villain.
González positions this within a rigorous documentary tradition of environmental witness—the contemplative pacing and formal restraint recall the essay-film lineage—and the five-minute constraint becomes a curator's choice: not to overwhelm but to crystallize a single, irreversible consequence.
The decision to keep the focus on textile waste itself rather than affected communities or charismatic spokespeople forces the material to speak; it's a deliberate constraint that transforms what could be another guilt-trip doc into something almost elegiac.