Juana Llancalahuen and the False Killer Whales - Time 1 to 4 (2019, 23:23) takes place in the far south of Chile between Punta Arenas and Land of Fire, separated from the American continent by the Strait of Magellan. In this story, water and liquidity are modes of connection between bodies, human and non-human, and the ocean. Hundreds of False Killer Whales have stranded on the coast to protest against the femicide of Juana Llancalahuen, who died under the blows of her husband. The film evokes the violence behind historical and scientific narratives, as they are written by and for the privileged, or also the violence intrinsic to the society and directed against women and minorities. Oscillating between documentary, magical realism and speculative fiction, Juana Llancalahuen and the False Killer Whales - Time 1 to 4 constructs an emancipatory and inter-species feminine imagination.
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