An Oscillating Shadow

synopsis

Between images and words, on the borderline between the subjective and the objective, the present and the past, debutante Celeste Rojas Mugica searches for the truth. Photographs from her father's archive, taken between 1970 and 1989 during the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet and eleven years of exile in Ecuador, are like puzzles, blank historical maps whose empty spaces the author fills with various versions of the past. She works with the reality of the time as raw material and transforms it into a stylized intergenerational collage of appropriated images, whose authenticity springs from artistic shorthand, flickering between reality and fiction, light and shadow.

“By the oscillation of light and shadow the flash of lightning appears, a space that emerges and takes place in the middle of the ‘archive’ and the ‘Now’.” — Celeste Rojas Mugica

biography

Celeste Rojas Mugica (born 1987) is a Chilean-Argentinian visual artist, filmmaker, and photographer. She studied filmmaking at the Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola art academy in San Sebastian. Her work straddles the line between documentary and fiction, exploring the relationship between memory, violence, and territory. An Oscillating Shadow is her feature film debut.

film details

director:	Celeste Rojas Mugica
producer:	Florencia de Mugica, Xénia Maingot, Celeste Rojas Mugica
script:	Celeste Rojas Mugica