This experimental documentary animation seriesaddresses experiences of abuse through an emotionaldialogue between women. Exploring the diversity ofsocial situations, origins, ages and educational levelsthat coexist in Bogotá, in each episode two charactersnarrate how they faced situations of physical, emotionaland/ or sexual abuse, and share the existing solutionsand empowerment actions around the recognition ofwomen’s rights. Personal experience is the startingpoint of the series, and the result of a process ofhealing dialogue that invites the audience to identifyand generate bonds of sisterhood and empathy fromand towards other women. By sharing real stories andexperiences in which they were abused because oftheir gender, the women deconstruct and redefinetheir own memory, which is also represented by theroots of a Nogal, the flagship tree of Bogotá, Colombia.The animated voices bring about various aestheticpossibilities to reinterpret traumatic experiencesthrough desymbolisation, texture, line and colour.In this case the visual metaphor is the relationshipbetween the tree and the woman, between the rootthat extends and that speaks of the past, of vitalmemory, but also of the wounds and pains that aredifficult to communicate and that during each chapterare resignified to go to the marrow, to the essence, tothe origin to thus achieve root healing.
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