The Birthmark

Consuelo’s daughter Victoria was brutally murdered in Mexico City. The Birthmark visualizes the mother’s inexpressible pain in blurry, abstract images, which become concrete only selectively: in macro-recordings of fleshy scar tissue and threatening pointy spikes that emphatically drill into not only the viewers’ eyes, but also their bosoms.

Orig. Title
El lunar en su espalda
Year
2019
Countries
Austria, Mexico, Denmark, Norway, Germany
Duration
11 min 30 sec
Category
Documentary, Short film, Experimental
Orig. Language
Spanish
Subtitles
English
Downloads
THE BIRTHMARK 1 (Image)
THE BIRTHMARK 1
Credits
Director
Bernhard Hetzenauer, Pia Ilonka Schenk Jensen
Script
Bernhard Hetzenauer, Pia Ilonka Schenk Jensen
Cinematography
Bernhard Hetzenauer, Pia Ilonka Schenk Jensen
Editing
Bernhard Hetzenauer
Sound
Ivan Ramos, Francisco Hernández
Editing
Pia Ilonka Schenk Jensen
Sound Design
Daniela López Guerrero
Production
Bernhard Hetzenauer, Pia Ilonka Schenk Jensen
Voice
Gabriela Ivette Sandoval Torres, Consuelo Salas
Available Formats
DCP 2K flat (Distribution Copy)
Aspect Ratio
1:1,85
Sound Format
5.1 surround
Frame Rate
25 fps
Color Format
colour
Digital File (prores, h264) (Distribution Copy)
Festivals (Selection)
2020
Linz - Crossing Europe Film Festival
Regensburg - Kurzfilmwoche
Saarbrücken - Filmfestival Max Ophüls Preis
Braunschweig - Filmfest
Mainz - FilmZ Festival des Deutschen Kinos
Dresden - Filmfest
Mexico - Shorts Mexico
Buenos Aires – FIDBA International Documentary Film Festival
Grimstadt - Kortfilmfestivalen
Wien - VIS Vienna Shorts
Nijmegen - Go Short Film Festival
Mexico - Ambulante Gira de Cinema
Graz - Diagonale, Festival des österreichischen Films
2021
Stuttgart - Filmwinter, Expanded Media Festival
2023
Yale - Latino and Iberian Film Festival