An Oscillating Shadow is a personal essay film that intertwines a fragmented voice over conversation between the director and her father, a photographer who documented his militant activism during Pinochet’s dictatorship and his subsequent exile throughout Latin America. As she explores these images, she repeatedly revisits the archive, turning the process into a game in her quest to connect with her father. From this exploration, various fictional narratives emerge, intricately woven into the story, allowing for reflection on resistance, the repercussions of trauma and the possibilities that images contain for conceiving other futures. The film examines how the personal and political significance of images can create spaces for reflection, serving as acts of resistance – either through their existence despite the horrors surrounding them or by offering an imaginary vanishing point that might just set us free. Marking the director’s debut feature, the film received a Special Mention at FIDMarseille International Film Festival.

Celeste Rojas Mugica (1987) is a Chilean-Argentinian visual artist, photographer, and filmmaker with a Master Degree in Film Creation from the Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola. She has exhibited her work in Latin America, Europe and Asia and has been supported by the Hubert Bals Fund (NL); FONDART (CL); Audiovisual Fund (CL); INCAA (AR); among others.She has recently showed her work in exhibitions and festivals such as FIDMarseille, Viennale, Ars Electronica, Les Rencontres d’ Arles, San Sebastian Film Festival and others. She is represented by Rolf Art Gallery.