The Faculties (2019)

The Faculties 2019 Solaass feature debut is a verite chronicle of final examinations at Argentinas public universities, in which students from a wide array of disciplines botany, anatomy, astronomy, law, physics, music prepare for, worry about, and ultimately partake in oral tests Solaas trains her focus on a diverse and disparate group of 12 such students, capturing the intensity, nerves, and pressure bound up in their by turns dramatic and absurd experience of the examinations A singular work of observation and pathos, The Faculties offers a thought provoking meditation on the contemporary state of education and marks an auspicious debut for Solaas