Isolda Films

While trying to explain to her seven-year-old son what it was like to grow up in Chile under the civil-military dictatorship, a mother is confronted with her own memories and the need to revisit her past. After almost twenty years living in Spain, she decides to find women who, like her, were born and spent their early years under the Chilean dictatorship. Andrea, Claudia, Alejandra, Daniela, Victoria and Sol gather in a house to share their experiences and explore how that early experience — often fragmented or beyond conscious memory — has left marks that remain present in their lives. In this encounter, the personal and the political intertwine, giving rise to a collective reflection on memory, identity, and the ways in which the past transforms and endures from one generation to another.

"The palm trees on the reverse are a delusion; so is the pink sand". This line, taken from a poem by Margaret Atwood, lights the path traced in "Postcard". As the years go by, landscapes transform, take on new meanings, and hold onto joys that will never be regained. The sea and the beach, once stages of happy summers, romances, and encounters, will turn into concentration camps or centers of detention and torture. This occurs across different times and places. In this piece, I embark on a journey through some of my works that explore the relationship between testimony, spaces, and time, engaging in dialogue with the beautiful film directed by Alejandro Segovia in 1972.