MÁQUINA MACABRA: EL COLLAGE DIGITAL (2019)
MACABRE MACHINE: THE DIGITAL COLLAGE (2019)
(Digital Collage Animation Short Film, created on tablet)
Technical Data: Digital collage animation (photography and video), created entirely on tablet.
Curatorial Synopsis:
Macabre Machine is a critical animation piece that exposes the structural violence implicit in the construction of feminine identity. The work is set in a conceptual "Doll Factory" where figures are assembled based on classical iconography (Venus de Botticelli) and conditioned to follow rigid behavioral patterns.
The narrative shows the intervention of a "Creator Hand" that violates and destroys figures deviating from the norm. The process, created entirely on a tablet using digital collage, serves as a critique of how media and data "manufacture" identities. The film concludes with the statistic of women murdered in Mexico in 2019, exposing the cold reality underlying the cultural construct.
AWARDS AND TRAJECTORY
Festival Premiere: Selected for the [Year, if remembered] edition of the ANIMA LATINA Festival, Buenos Aires.
Award Winner: Winner of the FICTONLag Contest (International Festival of Film and New Media).
Current Status: Semifinalist, Lucca Biennale Cartasia (LUBICA26).
Note: The work's process has been the subject of interviews for its use of alternative media in festivals.
