Notes on the film (Un)Appearing (United Kingdom, 2023), by Piotr Cieplak and Mariana Tello

Abstract

(Des)Aparecer is a documentary film that follows two protagonists, Gabriel Orge, a photographer from Córdoba known for his large-scale public projections of photos of the disappeared, and Ana Illovich, a survivor of the clandestine detention center "La Perla" and a writer. I do not think I am wrong if I say that both have left their mark on the ways in which we look at and try to understand the remains, the marks, the grays and chiaroscuros that in the present allude to a collective and individual life affected by the dictatorship. Córdoba is not looked at in the same way after El silencio. Postcards from La Perla, by Illovich (2017), or after Gabriel Orge's interventions at the Colegio Nacional de Monserrat.