Macula

It is within the macula, at the back of the eye, that images are fixed in the retina. Sonia’s gradual vision loss becomes a filmographic allegory through which her daughter unveils the events that, having been kept hidden, eclipsed the primeval memories of her gestation and birth.

Mariana X Rivera, Mexico, 2025, 28 min, in Spanish with English subtitles

About the Artist

PhD in Anthropological Sciences, MA in Visual Anthropology, and researcher at the Social and Ethnological Direction from the National Institute of Anthropology and History.

She is the co-founder of Urdimbre Audiovisual where she works as a filmmaker, photographer and editor. She has directed documentaries and video clips, and has published articles on Documentary, Ethnographic Film, Visual Anthropology, Weaving and Memory.Her films include Nos pintamos solas (2014) (Murals and Mirrors: Women resisting walls); Mujer. Se va la vida, compañera (2018) (Woman. Life Slips Away, compañera); Flores de la llanura (2021) (Prairie Flowers); and the transmedia narrative Oficios Creativos (2021) (Creative Trades). She coordinates the Seminary in Poetics of Imagination: Experimental Methodologies of Audiovisual Anthropology.