Naturaleza Muerta

Still Life

Direction: Carolina Astudillo
Screenplay: Carolina Astudillo
Production company: ALMU
Producer: Carolina Astudillo Muñoz
Edition: José Nicolás, Carolina Astudillo
Sound: Alejandra Molina
Music: Tempe Hernández

Runtime: 05:30
Format: 8mm
Dialogues: German
Subtitles: English, Spanish
Country: Spain
Year: 2020

Freud described the sinister (unheimlich) as a contradictory experience where the uncanny appears familiar to us and what is known and familiar seems strange. A grand-daughter discovers that her grandmother’s past was very different from what she had been told. Could it be that in times of war morality is submitted to survival?