Project description

Mamá Ceniza is a hybrid documentary that investigates the representation of female filicide in Chile through four cases spanning over a century: from María Muñoz (1921) to three contemporary cases. This doctoral research is made up of two inseparable objects: the film Mamá Ceniza and a cartographic book that together map how cinema, judicial, media and medical archives construct (and distort) the image of women who have killed their children.

This research falls under the UPF Doctoral Programme in Communication within the CINEMA group. The archive operates across objects as living matter that can be inhabited, interrogated and transformed cinematically.

The project has its direct methodological precedent in Malqueridas (Grand Prize, Venice Critics' Week), an earlier film by Tana Gilbert.

ARSENAL-ADVANCED intervention

ADVANCED has provided support in obtaining grants, funding and calls, as well as facilitating contacts with projects that have worked in prison environments