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Përshkrimi

Common objects like clothes, a trophy, a wallet, shoes, receipts, an identity document or an ornament become the only tangible traces that reveal the suspended wait of families of those missing. In their absence, these common devices become a treasure that shelters their memory.

Biografia e Regjisorëve

Paola Ovalle specialized in the study of social violence and sociocultural processes resulting from drug consumption and trafficking. Among her main academic interests are the use of images in the sociocultural research and the videodocumentation as a research technique of community base.

Alfonso Díaz Tovar is a visual anthropologist and social psychologist. His work is focused on social practices of commemoration and remembrance places. He is director of the research project and documentary series Living Museums. Among his publications stands out Documentary film as artifact of subaltern memories.