Tana Gilbert

Cecilia is the mother of my son's father. She recorded her family life with a handycam for more than 15 years. Today, she recounts her experiences and I review her images. “No star” explores the traces left in the family archive, and the contradictions we live with motherhood.

They are women. They are mothers. They are inmates serving long sentences in a prison in Chile. Their children grow up far from them, but remain in their hearts. In prison they find the affection of other inmates who share their same experience. Mutual support among these women becomes a form of resistance and emancipation. Malqueridas reconstructs their stories through the images they themselves shot with cell phones prohibited inside the prison, recovering the collective memory of a forgotten community.

"Rest, Zulema" is the psychological portrait of a woman who deals with disappointment and deception while reaching the end of her life. She tells the story of her family and all the effort she's made for it. Zulema is one of the many Chilean women who suffer a fate with little or no chance to break through.

Johnny (56) and Julia (87) only have each other. Despite their mental illness, they live an unconditional relationship of mother and child that transcends time and its effects.

Cecilia is the mother of my son's father. She recorded her family life with a handycam for more than 15 years. Today, she recounts her experiences and I review her images. “No star” explores the traces left in the family archive, and the contradictions we live with motherhood.

Cecilia is the mother of my son's father. She recorded her family life with a handycam for more than 15 years. Today, she recounts her experiences and I review her images. “No star” explores the traces left in the family archive, and the contradictions we live with motherhood.

Cecilia is the mother of my son's father. She recorded her family life with a handycam for more than 15 years. Today, she recounts her experiences and I review her images. “No star” explores the traces left in the family archive, and the contradictions we live with motherhood.

They are women. They are mothers. They are inmates serving long sentences in a prison in Chile. Their children grow up far from them, but remain in their hearts. In prison they find the affection of other inmates who share their same experience. Mutual support among these women becomes a form of resistance and emancipation. Malqueridas reconstructs their stories through the images they themselves shot with cell phones prohibited inside the prison, recovering the collective memory of a forgotten community.

They are women. They are mothers. They are inmates serving long sentences in a prison in Chile. Their children grow up far from them, but remain in their hearts. In prison they find the affection of other inmates who share their same experience. Mutual support among these women becomes a form of resistance and emancipation. Malqueridas reconstructs their stories through the images they themselves shot with cell phones prohibited inside the prison, recovering the collective memory of a forgotten community.

"Rest, Zulema" is the psychological portrait of a woman who deals with disappointment and deception while reaching the end of her life. She tells the story of her family and all the effort she's made for it. Zulema is one of the many Chilean women who suffer a fate with little or no chance to break through.

Johnny (56) and Julia (87) only have each other. Despite their mental illness, they live an unconditional relationship of mother and child that transcends time and its effects.