Penumbra de la memoria: Brown Bag with Maya Scherr-Willson

During this presentation, Maya Scherr-Willson (PhD Student in the Film and Media Department) will show material and reflect on insights from a research trip that laid the groundwork for Penumbra de la memoria, a feature documentary to be shot this summer. The project reunites eight women fifty years after they were held as political prisoners together during Argentina’s last military dictatorship to film an adaptation from memory of their prison-era performance of The House of Bernarda Alba by Federico García Lorca. The group, engaged in collective work, will be the protagonist of the film that chronicles the political memory that erupts through their creative process.