Short film essay
Status: Festival circuit
2025
25 min.
In a personal, political contemplation, a filmmaker searches for the meaning of silence—only to discover its impossibility. Beginning with images of the everyday and the ethereal, his attention is called to the attempted silencing that still haunts his homeland: the disappeared detainees of the Uruguayan dictatorship.
Written and directed by Maximiliano Battaglia
Associate producer: Jodi Cash
Featuring: Ponita Keo
Silence, please... or how I stopped chasing impossibilities was also adapated as an installation alongside a photo series at Bastille Design Center, Paris.