Directed & Written by Mariana X. Rivera
Short Documentary | 25 min | Spanish | Mexico
Sunday, September 28th, 2025 | 4:00PM Screening
Neighborhood House at Christ Church
20 N. American Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106
Sonia’s gradual vision loss becomes the filmographic allegory that allows her daughter to make a journey to unveil the events that had been kept in silence until then, and that had eclipsed the primeval memories of her gestation and birth.
Director’s Bio
Mariana X. Rivera
Director/Writer
PhD in Anthropological Sciences, MA in Visual Anthropology, and researcher at the Social and Ethnological Direction from the National Institute of Anthropology and History.
She is the co-founder of Urdimbre Audiovisual where she works as a filmmaker, photographer and editor. She has directed documentaries and video clips, and has published articles on Documentary, Ethnographic Film, Visual Anthropology, Weaving and Memory.
Her films include Nos pintamos solas (2014) (Murals and Mirrors: Women resisting walls); Mujer. Se va la vida, compañera (2018) (Woman. Life Slips Away, compañera); Flores de la llanura (2021) (Prairie Flowers); and the transmedia narrative Oficios Creativos (2021) (Creative Trades). She coordinates the Seminary in Poetics of Imagination: Experimental Methodologies of Audiovisual Anthropology.
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