Memory Exercises

Agustín Goiburú was one of the strongest and most radical dissidents under the long-lasting, right-wing dictatorship of Alfredo Stroessner in Paraguay. He went into exile in neighbouring Argentina and was ‘disappeared’ from his home near the Parana River, the border between the two countries, in 1976. The river plays a major role in Paz Encina’s haunting film, an imaginative tribute to Goiburú’s life, in which she deftly combines footage of furnished but empty rooms resembling still lifes, archival materials and the memories of Goiburú’s children retold through the words and imag...