FILM
Atlas of Disappearance
2018 - Ongoing
For over six years, Atlas of Disappearance has followed three families in their quest to reclaim the remains of their loved ones buried in the Valley. The film presents new evidence and visual materials that bring them closer to their lost relatives. The Documentary Research Office team—comprising artists, forensic architects, geographers, archivists, documentarians, and mathematicians—creates mathematical hypotheses, probabilistic algorithms, forensic cartographies, and architectural animations to reconstruct what was destroyed and digitally reveal the truth about Europe’s largest mass grave. The film juxtaposes the oral testimonies of families with virtual reconstructions of these hypotheses, waging a relentless battle against silence and oblivion.
The documentary leverages cutting-edge technologies to shed light on three cases involving families seeking answers about their disappeared relatives. Silvia, 50, leads the largest association advocating for exhumations. Mercedes longs to recover her father. And Fausto, an elderly man who has spent his life searching for his father’s remains, finally succeeded on August 20, 2023...while the remaining relatives lose hope as they wait.
Atlas of Disappearance was part of Berlinale Talent’s DocStation, Venatana CineMadrid and Zinebi Networking.