(31 Jul 2025)
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Tres Arroyos, Buenos Aires Province – 23 July 2025
1. Medium shot of payadores singing a payada demonstrating their art for the camera
2. Pan from Bastian playing guitar
3. Medium shot of payadores, Nazareno Peralta and Fausto Lopez Bastian greeting each other after singing
4. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) SOUNDBITE (English) Fausto Lopez Bastian, Payador
" A payada requires at least two payadores. What they do is improvise on the spot within a specific structure. In the Río de la Plata region—Argentina and Uruguay—we mostly use a ten-line verse form called the décima. Each verse must have eight syllables and follow a strict rhyme scheme; you can’t just rhyme anywhere. So the payada is this fleeting, spontaneous moment. Neither of them knows what the other will say. They try to follow a thread and respond to each other—otherwise, it’s not really a payada. There has to be connection, dialogue, back and forth.”
5. Close-up shot, payador Bastian putting away the guitar
6. Wide shot, payadores leaving through the gate
7. Wide shot Bastian grabbing a horse
8. Medium shot Bastian grabbing a horse
9. Medium shot Bastian walking between horses
10. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Fausto Lopez Bastian, Payador
"Repentismo ( improvisational poetry) is the art of improvisation. It’s not something we sit down and write out beforehand. If one payador asks a question, the other has to respond on the spot, defending themselves with the tools they have at hand. That’s improvisation—repentismo. In Argentina, we call it payada, but this kind of improvised art exists all over the world with different names, musical styles, and structures. All improvisers could be called repentistas (spoken word poets)."
11. Close-up shot horse
12. Close-up shot Bastian placing saddle on horse
13. Various Bastian working with the cows
14. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Fausto Lopez Bastian, Payador
"Payadores also learn from their elders. Experience is close by, and often shared. In my case, here in Tres Arroyos we have Luis Barrionuevo, who is an elder payador, who has travelled through many parts of the world and through Argentina with this art. And well, he has also shared with us some of his knowledge, his wisdom from so many years on the road, and now he has passed on to us the responsibility of continuing with the payador tradition here in Tres Arroyos.
Luis is getting old, he is retiring, and he has given us his knowledge and wisdom from so many years on the road, and now he has passed on to us the responsibility of continuing the tradition here in Tres Arroyos."
15. Wide shot, monument to the payador
16. Wide shot, Bastian and Luis Barrionuevo arriving
17. Medium Luis Barrionuevo speaking
18. Medium shot payadores singing at the monument to the payador
UPSOUND: (Spanish) Payador “ For this moment of ours, right in front of the monument.”
19. Audience applauding at the monument to the payador
20. People posing for photo at the monument to the payador
21. Luis Barrionuevo arriving at his house
22. Luis Barrionuevo showing photos of his travels on the wall
23. Close-up shot of Luis Barrionuevo’s hand and the awards he won
24. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Luis Barrionuevo, Payador and creator of the monument
“It makes me very happy and gives me great joy to see the new payadores who are emerging, and how beautiful it is that new payadores are coming out. I won’t live forever — just as we come into this world, we leave — so it’s nice to see that the seed is well planted here in the city of Tres Arroyos.”
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Buenos Aires – 22 July 2025
28. Wide shot of the parade
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