In 1985, when Xulia was in a detox centre, an incident marked her life forever. Years later she wrote Futuro imperfecto, a memory exercise turned into a book. What withstands the passing of time? How to revisit and walk through the remnants of the past? Xulia is a portrait film that delves into the memory of an entire generation.

Spanish spoken, English subtitles

A portrait of the filmmaker’s mother, filmed back on Orkney.

A sensuous portrait of the filmmaker’s grandmother, Chiyo. From her home in the Japanese suburbs, she shares stories of her dreams and her reality.

Japanese spoken, English subtitles

An afternoon exercise of piecing together minimal details for safekeeping: my grandmother’s garden, her music, recipes for well-being. (Alexandra Cuesta)

In 1998, filmmaker Barbara Hammer had a one-month artist residency in the C Scape Duneshack, which is run by the Provincetown Community Compact in Cape Cod, Massachusetts. The shack had no running water or electricity. While there, she shot 16mm film with her Beaulieu camera, recorded sounds with her cassette recorder and kept a journal. In 2018, Barbara began her own process of dying by revisiting her personal archive. She gave all of her Duneshack images, sounds and writing to filmmaker Lynne Sachs and invited her to make a film with the material.

Listen to me subverts the role traditionally assigned to women, turning them from a scrutinised object into a keen observer of forgotten realities.