Instead of nothing
there is All that Is.
All is
In()stead of Nothing(ness).
And this is all that is
Here, one thing led to another
and Something happened
(Nothing happened)
Everything happens, including this.
*instead of nothing (*en lugar de nada) is an autobiographical essay, an exploration of error and chance through what the director considers her parents’ biggest mistake, in search of forgiveness and an underlying innocence. This return to the past encounters an impossibility: the present imposes itself with every gesture, voicing a loud reply to the existential questions that surface from the power play that pulses through the entire family in a system of victims and executioners.
