Marialuisa Ernst
About
Marialuisa Ernst is an award-winning, South American filmmaker based in New York. During the span of her 20-year career, she has exhibited her work at over 30 international film festivals and won Best Film at the Ajijic International Cinema Festival for the short, MY PLACE BY THE WIND. Additionally, she’s been endorsed by several vanguard institutions—including El Museo del Barrio, Cinema Tropical, Film Archives NYC, El Centro Cultural, and The Goethe Institute. Ernst has a BA in film from UNICEN University of Bolivia and was trained as an interdisciplinary artist at UNIACC in Santiago, Chile.
A Place of Absence
A PLACE OF ABSENCE follows filmmaker Marialuisa Ernst’s search to find meaning and connection with Anita and Leticia, two Central American women traveling to Mexico as part of the Caravan of Mothers of Missing Migrants. As the group searches for sons and daughters who vanished en route to the U.S., Marialuisa draws parallels to the emotional turmoil her own mother experienced in the aftermath of her uncle’s disappearance during Argentina’s ‘Dirty War.'