Paulina Villavicencio

Yaa Ye'e: Quartz Deities

Mixtec-Zapotec antiquity reverberates in an instant. Their ancient voices whisper the memory of time and invoke deities that reveal deep secrets etched in stone. Quartz Deities is a look at the ungraspable, a liminal window that leads to mineral memories where the apparent univocal directionality of time is interrupted, diluted with the forces of nature and the cosmos.

Thereafter

After the incomprehensible death of her only son Jorge, Carmen discovers that the relationship of deep friendship that they had developed after abandoning his father kept secrets. No one answers the mystery behind what could have been a suicide, but they draw a contradictory portrait that forces her to face her own blurred reflection.

Water

Camilo, an adolescent rower on a Xochimilco jetty, has his first sexual encounter with another man. One day he thinks he is being discovered by Beto, a colleague from work. When confronted, Camilo accidentally ends up revealing his homosexuality. Not knowing what to do, Camilo reacts violently and decides to flee Xochimilco.