Ausencias
Synopsis:
Traces of life linger in objects, photographs, and poems, even when the person is gone. Ausencias uncovers the story of Miguel Ricart, who died of AIDS in the 1990s and whose figure was silenced within his family. Moving between interviews, photo albums, poems, tapes, and empty places, mother and daughter navigate Miguel’s absence.
The film meditates on memory, not to fully recover a life, but to understand the beauty in what cannot be fully retrieved. While deeply personal, Ausencias speaks to a collective experience: queer memory is shared, shaped by history, and carries the stories of many whose lives were silenced.