Melisa Miranda

During her glorious years as a sex worker in '90s and early 2000s Miami, Máxima documented the wild escapades she shared with her glamorous trans Latinx friends. Revisiting VHS tapes decades later, she reflects on where everyone ended up, what they carried with them, and the ghosts that linger. As past and present collapse, the images of their unfolding trajectories open a broader exploration of the conditions that have shaped their fates.

Dimas and Isabel lived in Arica when new border limits were imposed between Peru and Chile, dividing their descendants. Their great-granddaughter searches for her identity, crossing the limits of her memory, family chronicles and official discourses that shape the history of both countries.

Three years ago my mother suffered a serious cerebral stroke. In two hours herself vanished in front of me facing me suddenly with a body in which she was not anymore. Médula is the journey in which I try to recover the lost image of a woman that I was never able to understand nor get to know and who, today, feels more undecipherable than ever.

The inhabitants of Maria Elena, the driest place on Earth, were chosen to be the first to colonize Mars. The people are torn between the decision to leave their roots, the heat, the economic debacle and the new promise of progress, this time on another planet. The pampinos prepare to leave their past behind and embark on a space voyage, the last exodus from the saltpeter pampas.

During her glorious years as a sex worker in '90s and early 2000s Miami, Máxima documented the wild escapades she shared with her glamorous trans Latinx friends. Revisiting VHS tapes decades later, she reflects on where everyone ended up, what they carried with them, and the ghosts that linger. As past and present collapse, the images of their unfolding trajectories open a broader exploration of the conditions that have shaped their fates.

Dimas and Isabel lived in Arica when new border limits were imposed between Peru and Chile, dividing their descendants. Their great-granddaughter searches for her identity, crossing the limits of her memory, family chronicles and official discourses that shape the history of both countries.

Three years ago my mother suffered a serious cerebral stroke. In two hours herself vanished in front of me facing me suddenly with a body in which she was not anymore. Médula is the journey in which I try to recover the lost image of a woman that I was never able to understand nor get to know and who, today, feels more undecipherable than ever.

The inhabitants of Maria Elena, the driest place on Earth, were chosen to be the first to colonize Mars. The people are torn between the decision to leave their roots, the heat, the economic debacle and the new promise of progress, this time on another planet. The pampinos prepare to leave their past behind and embark on a space voyage, the last exodus from the saltpeter pampas.