The Violent Skin

Hybrid Documentary

In "The Violent Skin," I invoke the ghost of my father to have the conversation I could never have with him in life. I return to my family＇s rustic cabin in the coastal town of Cuajiniquil, ten years after scattering his ashes in the same sea that now, due to climate change, threatens to erase our home and family history. How do I tell him about the intergenerational violence that has afflicted the men in our family with a deadly silence that killed him and led me to repress my homosexuality for so many decades? The only thing I can tell him is a story about how a few months after he passed away, my Uncle Sergio, a hunter who lives isolated in the northern mountains of Costa Rica, invited me to the untamed wilderness to hunt a jaguar.