La Violencia del Lugar

this essay introduces nomadic characters, orphans, night crawlers, jobless and lawless people. these characters will allow us to analyze the bonds between violence and site in argentine culture during the nineties and at the beginning of our century. the chosen films are un día de suerte (a lucky day, 2002) by sandra gugliotta, vagón fumador (smoking car, 2001) by verónica chen, and hoy y ma？ana ( today and tomorrow, 2003) by alejandro chomski. these three movies, filmed at the beginning of the year 2000, are set in the city of buenos aires; the stories follow the wanderings of their young protagonists, showing new displacements between center and periphery in buenos aires' cartography.