As If the Earth Had Swallowed Them Up
Como si la tierra se las hubiera tragado
Viewer Advice: Contains themes of domestic violence and violence towards women.
Returning to her hometown in Mexico, Olivia is flooded with childhood memories. At first, they’re happy – but then she remembers the moment when everything changed.
A moving portrait of innocence lost, Natalia Léon’s poignant work reflects on Mexico’s mass femicides from a personal perspective, recreating the moment when a young girl becomes aware of the threat of gendered violence. Evoking the passage of time and memory, it cannily moves between the naive colours of childhood and the black-and-white reality of the present.
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