San Telmo Producciones

Documentary

Man Vs. Meteorite
Hombre Vs. Meteorito

Using millennial techniques, Guillermo makes a knife out of meteorite metal.
Guillermo elabora un cuchillo con metal de meteorito.

Director: Gabriel Balanovsky
Producer: Gabriel Balanovsky and Gary Parker
Director of Photography: Jorge Crespo
Editor: Ginger Gentile
Specs: HD/2009/10min

Winner of Best Documentary in Tandil Cortos 2010 and entered competition in five other international festivals, including Sydney Latin American Film Festival.

Created to promote knives from Argentina: www.artisanalknives.com

A great example of how a “corporate video” doesn’t need to be boring: it can also be a work of art. Guillermo Mendoza carries on the traditions taught to him by his gaucho grandfather and forges Damascus steel knives by hand. He has never met a metal he cannot turn into a knife, until he receives a package and a challenge: to make a knife out of a meteorite.

Guillermo Mendoza realiza cuchillos de acero damasco a mano utilizando los conocimientos que su abuelo, un gaucho, le transmitió. Ningún metal le había resultado difícil de trabajar hasta que recibió metal de meteorito para elaborar un cuchillo
El documental muestra a Guillermo elaborando un cuchillo con metal de meteorito, utilizando técnicas milenarias y el resultado es un cuchillo artesanal único y bello.