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Places of Absence

Places of Absence

2021 · 28 min · Documentary

The hands question what they can have in common with hands covered in cement, in mud, in dust, dressed in blue construction gloves and yellow cleaning gloves. Those hands that, instead of building houses, repeat images, stretch sounds, construct films.

Directed by Melanie Pereira

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