On the outskirts of Buenos Aires, there is a neighborhood built around two cemeteries. Amidst virgins and pagan offerings, the elders recite memories and forget ghosts. Children invent their childhoods with graves and hammocks. Oblivion is a territory where these creatures glide, feeling the passage of time, even though they are no longer part of it. Fears wander among the shadows of the disappeared; there is silence where voices should have been, and the everyday becomes ritual.
Nov 2020
For 20 years, a documentary filmmaker has been searching for his father, who was detained and disappeared during the last Civic-Military Dictatorship. Meanwhile, the EAAF (Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team) is exhuming unidentified bodies in the Avellaneda Cemetery, Buenos Aires province.
Mar 2021