Director: Lourdes Portillo
Participants: Ofelia Almeida, Oscar Ruiz Almeida, Jesus de la Torre, Luz Ruiz De La Torre
Mexico, USA, 1994, 87', DCP, color
Spanish, English with Turkish subtitles
The documentary by Lourdes Portillo begins when Portillo receives the news of her uncle Oscar's death, which is first ruled a heart attack and then suicide. Portillo travels to her hometown of Chihuahua, Mexico, to uncover the truth about her uncle's death. Through interviews with Oscar's friends and family, he unveils previously unknown details about his uncle and offers a personal and complex picture of his uncle's life and death.
Celebrating its 10th anniversary this year, Pera Museum invites artist Benoît Hamet to reinterpret key pieces from its collections, casting a humorous eye over ‘historical’ events, both imagined and factual.
“The portrait tells us that there is an inner and an outer dimension of the human condition; it provides—or should provide—information about both the physical and psychological character of an individual.”
The wind blows, rubbing against my legs made of layers of metal and wires, swaying the leaves of grass that have shot up from the cracks in the tarmac, and going off to the windows that look like the eyes of dead children in the wrecked buildings that seem to be everywhere as far as the eye can see.
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