The work consists of sounds of a trepanation recorded during an autopsy. The minimalist oeuvre of Mexican artist Margolles revolves around what is perhaps the last great taboo topic of our time: death. She is not interested in folklore and ritual but in the palpable reality of the corpse. ‘What does a corpse have to go through?’ wonders Margolles, who is also a forensic medical assistant and a scholar in the field of communications. Employing a minimalist aesthetic, she transforms extinguished life, rendering it perceptible through artistic intervention, thereby rescuing ‘her’ decedents from oblivion.
Film details
- Country of production
- Mexico
- Year
- 2003
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2005
- Medium/Format
- -
- Premiere status
- -
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