The film seeks to recover lost and overlooked stories of a generation devastated by the rubber boom of the late 19th and early 20th century in Latin America. It deconstructs the official history of the extractive colonial rubber trade providing space for the ghosts which break from official memory. Going beyond the archive, Sadowski shares the photo with the Indigenous peoples of Peru today, the descendants of workers of the rubber factory, and films their interventions.
Tatiana Fuentes Sadowski is a Peruvian filmmaker whose work bridges experimental and documentary cinema, exploringthemes of memory, colonial histories, and collective healing. She studied Performing Arts in Perú and Film and New Media at Le FresnoyStudio National des Arts Contemporains in France. Her previous films have been showcased at prestigious festivals such as Doclisboa, Oberhausen, Art of the Real, etc. The Memory of Butterflies is her opera prima and her latest exploration of archival research and Indigenous storytelling, reflecting her commitment to addressing historical wounds through a poetic cinematic lens.
Elizabeth Aquino
