Celeste Rojas Mugica

A father took photos during the Chilean dictatorship. His daughter plays with him in the darkroom, developing other images. Images to resist and invent other futures.

Celeste, a young photographer, delves into the old collection of negatives that belonged to her father, a photographer who fought in the 70s and 80s against the dictatorship in Chile and who went into exile in Ecuador. Thanks to the pictures, she will find a way to access her father’s elusive memory, while asking herself about the meaning of the struggle, the density of exile and how it fits in with the present day.

A strange weapon of optical complexity is able to project an enormous dazzling light over the territory. Precisely aimed, the ray can cause the spread of colossal heat, enough to destroy everything. The night is extinguished, the earth burns, the creatures run away groping towards the depths of the world. In the dark holes of the earth the space expands enough to imagine a refuge where another imaginary may appear.