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BLUE

Violena Ampudia
Cuba / Belgium
17'

BLUE is the result of a collaborative process with women who have experienced postpartum depression. Director Violena Ampudia organizes a cyanotype workshop for these mothers to create their own images that illustrate their condition: their fears, dreams and experiences, all expressed through different shades of blue.

Ever since Derek Jarman, the blue screen has always signified a delicate and fragile mixture of melancholy and loss. It symbolizes one’s entry into a new phase of life, one marked by a sense of uncertainty, even fear, as well as the urge to (re)discover the serenity and voluptuous bliss of the moment. In BLUE, the result of a collaborative process exploring motherhood and post-partum depression, Violena Ampudia uses cyanotype to reproduce abstract images, patterns, diaristic fragments, animations, and printed film frames in a fabric so finely woven that it appears fragile to the touch — not unlike the contradictory, often agonizing feelings women process during early motherhood. (Flavia Dima)



Screening date and location

September 28th, 9:00 PM, Cinemateca Eforie

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Violena Ampudia

Violena Ampudia is a Cuban filmmaker and actress based in Lisbon. Graduated in Performing Arts at the National School of Arts, Havana, Cuba. Has also studied Audiovisual Communication, specializing in Film Directing, at the Instituto Superior de Arte, Havana, Cuba. Graduated in Documentary Film Directing from the EICTV in San Antonio de los Baños, in 2020. Has a master in Documentary Filmmaking at DOCNOMADS in 2022. Her films explore interpersonal relationships, encounters and growth processes. Lately, she has focused on collaborative and artisanal filmmaking processes. Her films have been selected in festivals such as Ji.hlava, Cinélatino Rencontres de Toulouse, Belo Horizonte IFF, Curta Kinoforum in São Paulo, Poitiers IFF and Doc Buenos Aires. She is currently part of the analog film collective Laboratório da Cave, based in Lisbon.



  • Technical sheet
  • Production and distribution
  • With: Atiaf Alwazir, Annika Alma, Laura Vingan, Vivian Hayles
  • Director: Violena Ampudia
  • Screenwriter: Violena Ampudia
  • Cyanotype workshop: Violena Ampudia
  • Texts: Atiaf Alwazir, Annika Alma, Violena Ampudia
  • Sound design & sound editing: Violena Ampudia
  • Editing: Violena Ampudia
  • Sound mix: Glenda L. Martinez Cabrera și Velia Diaz de Villalvilla
  • Color Grading: Sujay Iyer
  • Darkroom assistants & animations: Maria Casas Castillo, Daniela Muñoz Barroso, Adrian Curvelo
  • Produced by: DocNomads - Estudio ST
  • Producer: Violena Ampudia și Daniela Muñoz Barroso
  • Assistant producer: Isabel Noens

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BLUE

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BLUE is the result of a collaborative process with women who have experienced postpartum depression. Director Violena Ampudia organizes a cyanotype workshop for these mothers to create their own images that illustrate their condition: their fears, dreams and experiences, all expressed through different shades of blue.

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