When I asked my grandmother about her migration, she told me, "You don't know what it's like to wait four months for a letter", and it's true, thanks to technology, the live faces of the people I love are a few finger-gestures away. Our digital worlds interweave our lives.

This is Palmi, my grandma

Besides sharing a 25% of the genetic pool,
since 2019 we also share the experience
of migration.

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Our journeys

11,127.35 km (or 13 hs and 35 minutes) is a short film about how our brains might work when migrating to adapt to a new culture and context while managing daily tasks. I discovered that feelings of obsessive longing and desire can transform and arise to give form to a destination.

In 1955 my grandmother
got on a boat with
her three-year-old
daughter and left
Oviedo (Spain) to
end in Montevideo.
Her last stop would
be Buenos Aires,
where all her
grandchildren
would be born.

Above: Asturias, Spain 1955
Right: Argentina 1955, Juan Domingo Perón in government.

In 2019, sixty-four years later, I got on a plane and changed Buenos Aires for London.

Above: Buenos Aires 2019.
Left: London 2019, Boris Johnson is Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

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INFLUENCES

JEANNE DIELMAN, 23 QUAI DU COMMERCE, 1080 BRUXELLES

STORYTELLING - EVERY DAY ACTIONS - RESILIENCE

Chantal Akerman

Joey Soloway

STATEMENTS - TYPOGRAPHY - REFERENCES TO OTHERS - QUESTIONS

Naomi Uman

REMOVED (1999)

Michel Gondry

FEMALE NARRATIVES
/ THE VISUAL EFFECT OF ERASING A BODY

PROPS - GREEN SCREEN - ANALOG TECHNIQUES