2012 | Color | 61 min The documentary weaves the intimate love stories of three women from different generations: an adolescent, a middle-aged divorcee, and my 90-year-old Great Aunt. Through a careful exploration of space and color, inspired by technicolor melodramas of the 40s and 50s, I trace their experience, exploring the rooms they inhabit and the memories that remain in them, extracting their voice and their loves from a rich texture of archival material. Country: México Direction: Portillo Padua; Otilia Script: Portillo Padua; Otilia Production: Portillo Padua; Otilia Photography: Castillo; Erick Sound: Molina; Miguel Ángel Participation year at FICM: 2012
2012 | Color | 61 min The documentary weaves the intimate love stories of three women from different generations: an adolescent, a middle-aged divorcee, and my 90-year-old Great Aunt. Through a careful exploration of space and color, inspired by technicolor melodramas of the 40s and 50s, I trace their experience, exploring the rooms they inhabit and the memories that remain in them, extracting their voice and their loves from a rich texture of archival material. Country: México Direction: Portillo Padua; Otilia Script: Portillo Padua; Otilia Production: Portillo Padua; Otilia Photography: Castillo; Erick Sound: Molina; Miguel Ángel Participation year at FICM: 2012
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