Three minutes. One life. All the proof we ever existed.
and its preservation as personal and collective memory. My father documented the history of our family. He said that "we are what our memory allows us to remember" and tried to photograph everything, even in his last days, before he died from Covid in February 2021. This documentary is a small tribute to him, but this could be the story of any other people around the world.
Direction
Zúñiga turns family archives into universal elegy.
Editing
Ruthless compression—every cut carries decades.
Director
Alberto Zúñiga Rodríguez
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made during peak pandemic grief, when millions couldn't mourn properly—this is one of countless silenced goodbyes given form.
The title references André Bazin's 'ontology of the photographic image'—the belief that photography embalms time. Here, it fails.
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