一首西班牙语情歌 A Love Song in Spanish

A hybrid work, Ana Elena Tejera’s portrait of her grandmother utilizes archival images, re-enactment and “biographical performance” to exorcise painful personal experience, family secrets, and Panamanian military dictatorship in the 1980s a history felt “through the skin.” Grandmother recounts how her husband returned from military training in Israel, fundamentally altered. “Why did God make me love you?” she asks, underlining a domain of fear, entrapment, and hidden violence. A moment of joy in movement ruptures memory’s prison-house, as grandmother dances alone in her old living room, a room where moving her body had long been forbidden.