Embroiderers of Memory

Sound 30.000.
gifts.
There are absences that still hurt.

But there are also hands that decide to transform them into presence.
In “Embroiderers of Memory”, each stitch is a collective gesture:
to name, to remember, to reconstruct.
In every name, memory.
In every stitch, presence.
Because where there was absence,
There are those who transform it into a struggle.

This short documentary recovers those practices that, from the intimate and the collective, sustain memory as a political and affective act in Argentina.

Among these stories is that of Yves Domergue, a disappeared detainee whose remains were identified decades later by the Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team (EAAF) in Melincué. His name, like so many others, is present once again: in memory, in the struggle, and in every thread that bears his name.

Where there was an attempt to erase,
Names appear.
Stories.
Living memory.
Memory, human rights, Argentina, March 24, Argentine dictatorship, disappeared, Embroidering Struggles, Yves Domergue, Melincué, collective memory, Never Again, collective embroidery, memory and truth, justice, CLACSO.

Directed by: Gustavo Lema
Journalistic production: Eric Domergue
Cameras: Guido Fontán, Gustavo Lema, Verónica Habichayn

Song “Bordando tu nombre”: José Blanco, performed by Mercedes Davison
Special thanks to the National Ethnographic Museum, Buenos Aires