Absence is an interpretive auto-ethnographic film exposing – at an interrupted temporality – the first analysis of the difficulties and learnings a researcher encountered during her fieldwork in rural Brazil. With her voice, the researcher reclaims her emotions, intuitions and vulnerabilities that, back then, had been underestimated. With the solidarity of her main collaborator, they reclaim together their female voices to break the silence of oppression through toxic patriarchal masculinity.
Roxanne Abel Gintz
Roxanne Abel Gintz is a story listener-teller-maker-dreamer based in Berlin. After studying Classical Literature, Modern Letters, Communication and Journalism in various French institutions, she funneled her way through Anthropology via the professional Visual and Media Master at Freie Universität in Berlin. She is currently completing her final thesis year after conducting fieldwork in rural Brazil. She is enticed by the feeling of community within alternative ways of living and movements of thinking such as neo-ruralism, nomadism, wild-camping or subcultures like cyborgism and the electronic music scene. Her focus of format is driven towards the relation between voices and testimonies with audio-recording and visual representation. Filtered through a deconstructivist approach and a mechanic-organic poetic imaginary gaze.