Director’s Note – Manuel Correa
Atlas of Disappearance responds to a long-standing effort to obscure the violence of the Franco regime through silence, bureaucracy, and institutional resistance. Despite recent legislative advances, exhumation projects remain paralyzed, leaving families—some now in their third or fourth generation—without answers, without graves, and without closure.
To confront this, I founded the Oficina de Investigación Documental (OID), a transdisciplinary research unit composed of geographers, filmmakers, architects, and artists. This collective is inspired by my experience and time as part of the Forensic Architecture collective in London. Our mission is to restore visibility to what was meant to be hidden: massgraves, forced transfers, detention centers, and other erased geographies of violence.
Through digital mapping, forensic reconstruction, and situated testimony, the OID works to create a shared, accessible archive of truth, grounded in rigorous investigation and collective care. This film brings that work to the screen, bridging data and memory, space and story, so that those affected by disappearance may find a place to mourn, remember, and demand justice.
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