Void

| #7 Offside
(BALi, KulturBahnhof Kassel)

Enforced disappearances of opposition figures are a widespread practice of state terror in Latin America. “Desaparecidxs” are people who have been secretly abducted, tortured and murdered by security forces, but whose bodies have never been found. VOID looks at representation strategies of victims that had been made invisible. The found-footage work narrates itself along two significant soccer matches played during the South American Copa Libertadores in Barranquilla, Colombia. Despite the nationwide protests of 2021 in which up to 600 demonstrators were enforced disappeared, the soccer federation as well as the government persisted in hosting them. During the live broadcast, the state terror as well as the trauma of enforced disappearances became visible in a special way.

  • Duration: 25 Min.
  • Countries: Colombia, Germany
  • Languages: Spanish, English
  • Subtitles: English
  • Production year: 2023
  • Premiere: World Premiere

  • Director: Jonas Weber Herrera
  • Editing: Jonas Weber Herrera