An icy suspense, a blue party, invisible walls, sips of salt water, a shivering mirror, a crash in the snow, released snakes, and a ghost piano. Miren Felder (2024) is a film made with monochrome photographs taken by my military grandfather. The images are presented as hidden emergency codes sent by my grandmother after her death in a plane crash in 1977. I offer myself as a medium to invoke my grandmother’s spirit and communicate with her. Miren Felder takes the form of ritual knotting different layers of time and opens a portal to interrogate my family’s collaboration with the dictatorship.
Malen Otaño
Malen Otaño (born 1984) comes from Neuquén, Patagonia, Argentina. She is a psychoanalyst and video artist. In 2021, she successfully completed the Di Tella Film Program. She works particularly in processes of research and experimentation between film, performance, and video installation. In 2020, she published her first book, Twin Otter T-87.
Valentina Flynn
Born in Rosario, Valentina Flynn studied Audiovisual Production at UAI, a Diploma in Distribution at UNVM, and completed the Film Program at Di Tella University. She produced documentaries that have been screened at major festivals such as VdR, Hot Docs, Chicago, Mar del Plata, and BAFICI. She worked at the production companies Ojo Blindado, BKN, and Oficina Burm.
As the emergence of time travel as a literary theme at the fin de siècle is a phenomenon one may suspect to be linked to the simultaneous emergence of cinema (and by extension, photography), with its capacity to manipulate the illusion of time. Chris Marker’s La Jetée (1962), in its radical experimentation of form, mostly…
