The Birthmark

by Bernhard Hetzenauer, Pia Ilonka Schenk Jensen 
  • 2020 Schenk/Hetzenauer | Lemonade Films
  • 2020 Schenk/Hetzenauer | Lemonade Films
  • 2020 Schenk/Hetzenauer | Lemonade Films
  • 2020 Schenk/Hetzenauer | Lemonade Films

    Synopsis

    Consuelo's daughter Victoria was brutally murdered in Mexico City. The Birthmark visualizes the mother's inexpressible pain in blurry, abstract images, which become concrete only selectively: in macro-recordings of fleshy scar tissue and threatening pointy spikes that emphatically drill into not only the viewers' eyes, but also their bosom. (© Katalog Diagonale 2020, Michelle Koch)

    Festivals

    2020
    FF MAX OPHÜLS PREIS, Saarbrücken
    HUMAN Int. Doc. Film Festival Oslo
    ShortFilmWeek Regensburg, Intern. Comp.
    Vienna Shorts - Online Edition