Macular Oracle Deck

by Mariana X Rivera

An oracle deck accompanying the film Macula. A tool that connects to the emotional cartography of the documentary to offer insight. By consulting it, the viewer is invited to reverberate in the echoes of their own memory.

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.