Todo lo que se olvida en un instante (Everything that is forgotten in an instant) is a bilingual documentary essay about the construction of identity, and in particular the American identity. The film is direct, biographical and anecdotal in its treatment: I was born in New York City and identify as a New Yorker,but even more specifically as a New York Jew from Queens, raised in the 1970s and 80s, the child of another New York Jew, born in 1919, the child of immigrants from the Ukraine, and I consider this identity to be an inheritance. When I became a father myself, I was taken by an awareness of how deep is this idea of the construction of my own identity and my desire to share this inheritance with my daughters. However, my daughters were not born in New York, but rather in Buenos Aires where I have been living since 2002. And though Buenos Aires is my home, it is not where I was raised. It is not where I learned to see and hear and I will never be a porteño (native) and so I wonder, what will be the inheritance that I leave my daughters?
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