En Ausencia means ‘in absence’. The film was designed and filmed during Caterina Erica Shanta’s research residency in Mexico City in June 2023.
In Mexico, potable water is a private good, so its access is governed by market laws like any other commodity.
Therefore, access to water becomes, in this context, even more a political discussion when the supply of water is not guaranteed to be acquired in an equitable and sustainable manner.
En Ausencia is built on the narrative voices of a number of people who joined an open call published by Shanta while she was in Mexico City, in which she asked them to recount dreams in which water was the main and recurring element.
Born in 1986 in Germany, Caterina Erica Shanta is a visual artist and film director. She works primarily on moving images and contemporary art with different media output, and she makes movies based on private archives and collective film-making practices. Her works have been exhibited in art institutions such as Ca’Pesaro, Cineteca National de CDMX, MART, GaMEC, Careof - non profit for contemporary art, Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, MAMBO, and screened in many film festivals such as Oberhausen Film Festival, 30-70 International Short Film Festival, Lo Schermo dell’Arte, Filmmakers Film Festival, Trento Film Festival. She was awarded with many prizes, among which the recent MUFOCO "L’Italia è un desiderio", and the Italian Council talent support.
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