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Self-Portrait at 13

2025-06-18 · 18 min · Not rated

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A mother and her son use the same video tapes to record themselves in parallel timelines, overlapping different impressions of the world. Images from the 1990s reveal to us a world still failing to solve the same old problems.

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Oscar X. Illingworth
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Ecuador
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