Clarín says it has recently received 13 "strange" inquiries from the securities commission.
It has revealed the strangest inquiries of the year to remind the public its helpline should be for emergencies.
As it happens, the festival's first offering, Trent Harris's "Beaver Trilogy" (showing tonight and tomorrow) is a work that raises these questions, and a number of others, including, "What in the world was that?" Whatever else it is, "Beaver Trilogy" is a rivetingly strange, multilayered inquiry into celebrity, obsession and serendipity.
A strange coroner's inquiry has begun into the disappearance of Paddy Moriarty just before Christmas from Larrimah, a community on the edge of the desert 300 miles south of Darwin.
In 1993 he published I Am Alive and You Are Dead, a strange and obsessive inquiry into the life of Philip K Dick, the cult sci-fi writer whose work inspired movies including Blade Runner and Total Recall.
He was notoriously slow, reworking a painting for decades, and constantly distracted by the visionary machines and armaments, the metaphysical and mathematical speculations, the strange inventions, anatomical inquiries and treatises on art for which he is celebrated.
Her head bowed, her face muffled in a black woollen hat and pink scarf, Carole Baptiste cut a strange figure at the inquiry into the death of child abuse victim Victoria Climbié.
The result is a finely honed look at a brief, strange relationship and an inquiry into what life, art and celebrity are all about.
They write: "Inquiries are strange phenomena.
There is no evidence that Scaramella was responsible, but the inquiry accepted a strange reasoning for Litvinenko implicating him in the first place.
The unfolding of the narrative is genuinely eerie, but the richness of allusion and elegance of design make Strange Bodies as much an inquiry into language and identity as a high-concept literary thriller.
