Anne Huffschmid

Documentary portrait of one of the last survivors of the German-Jewish exile in Mexico: Marianne Frenk-Westheim. Translator, writer and great connoisseur of art, she lived in three centuries and in two very distant cultures: her first 32 years in Germany and more than 70 years in Mexico, her second homeland.

Spaces of terror, produced by massacre or disappearance, do not belong to far away galaxies, or to some kind of no one’s land, but are inserted in our everyday geographies. We coexist with them, often without seeing or perceiving. They have a voice and things to tell, so let’s start listening.

Human bodies do not disappear. They were kidnapped, buried, torn to pieces. But they are also searched, recovered, and, when forensics achieves the improbable, rebuilt as people. They can only return home when they are identified as dead. An audiovisual journey through the landscapes of an overwhelmed Mexico, between graves and fragments, family and forensic. In search of the human that persists, despite everything.

Documentary portrait of one of the last survivors of the German-Jewish exile in Mexico: Marianne Frenk-Westheim. Translator, writer and great connoisseur of art, she lived in three centuries and in two very distant cultures: her first 32 years in Germany and more than 70 years in Mexico, her second homeland.

Documentary portrait of one of the last survivors of the German-Jewish exile in Mexico: Marianne Frenk-Westheim. Translator, writer and great connoisseur of art, she lived in three centuries and in two very distant cultures: her first 32 years in Germany and more than 70 years in Mexico, her second homeland.

Spaces of terror, produced by massacre or disappearance, do not belong to far away galaxies, or to some kind of no one’s land, but are inserted in our everyday geographies. We coexist with them, often without seeing or perceiving. They have a voice and things to tell, so let’s start listening.

Human bodies do not disappear. They were kidnapped, buried, torn to pieces. But they are also searched, recovered, and, when forensics achieves the improbable, rebuilt as people. They can only return home when they are identified as dead. An audiovisual journey through the landscapes of an overwhelmed Mexico, between graves and fragments, family and forensic. In search of the human that persists, despite everything.