Lucía Malandro (Uruguay) and Daniel Saucedo (Cuba) are filmmakers and archivists who have been collaborating since 2018 on projects focused on research and the use of archives. Trained at the San Antonio de los Baños Film School and the Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola, they founded in 2019 the collective Los Archivistas Salvajes, promoting initiatives such as the first photographic collection of Cuban judicial archives and the amateur film archive Los subterráneos. Their previous short, Example #35, was a THFF selection. They are currently developing La Isla Sumergida, a documentary.
La selva oscura is a record of a long journey connecting two funeral rituals in Cuba: the state burial honoring those who fell in the Angola war and a spiritist ceremony welcoming spirits of the past back into the world of the living. These events, captured by Cuban amateur documentaries filmed in 1987, intertwine to form the core of this film, whose central reflections revolve around loss and oblivion.
La Selva Oscura will play as part of the Shorts Program: Why Does the Air Tremble?
