Flesh that Remembers

In a Guatemalan mountain village, a young girl Elena, is sent to fetch water and keys for her mother, a local activist.

On her way through the village, the dogs and other things in her inner self, start barking.

An exploration of everyday ambivalence around property, consumption, and whiteness. The text, adapted from a longer work, was written collaboratively, and the video was made in conversation with the text.

For two years, a surgeon obsessively sends messages to her husband’s ex-lover after she finds out about their affair.