{"id":16592,"date":"2026-08-18T05:04:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T04:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.instantsvideo.com\/blog\/video\/pude-ver-un-fantasma-desde-mi-ventana-i-could-see-a-ghost-from-my-window\/"},"modified":"2026-09-13T17:17:02","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T16:17:02","slug":"pude-ver-un-fantasma-desde-mi-ventana-i-could-see-a-ghost-from-my-window","status":"publish","type":"portfolio","link":"https:\/\/www.instantsvideo.com\/blog\/video\/pude-ver-un-fantasma-desde-mi-ventana-i-could-see-a-ghost-from-my-window\/","title":{"rendered":"Pude ver un fantasma desde mi ventana"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(I Could See a Ghost from My Window)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00c0 partir du r\u00e9cit d\u2019une m\u00e8re et d\u2019une grand-m\u00e8re autour du meurtre d\u2019une travesti, la r\u00e9alisatrice construit ce court documentaire autour de la notion d\u2019<em>ensue\u00f1o<\/em>\u00a0\u2014 cet espace entre m\u00e9moire et imagination \u2014 ancr\u00e9e dans un souvenir d\u2019enfance.<br>\u00c0 travers des archives de la communaut\u00e9 trans en \u00c9quateur dans les ann\u00e9es 1990 et des images trouv\u00e9es, une micro-narration se d\u00e9ploie autour de la m\u00e9moire, de la mort et de l\u2019absence. Un geste fragile pour \u00e9chapper \u00e0 l\u2019oubli et devenir \u00e9ternelle \u00e0 travers le cin\u00e9ma<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Based on the account of a mother and grandmother about the murder of a travesti, the director weaves this short documentary around the notion of ensue\u00f1o \u2014that space between memory and imagination\u2014 rooted in a childhood recollection. With archival materials from the trans community in Ecuador during the 1990s and found footage, a micro-narrative unfolds around memory, death, and absence. A tentative gesture to escape oblivion and become eternal through cinema.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/filmfreeway-production-storage-01-connector.filmfreeway.com\/press_kits\/posters\/003\/573\/434\/original\/f86f5b377c-poster.jpg?1755352982\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/filmfreeway-production-storage-01-connector.filmfreeway.com\/attachments\/files\/009\/729\/809\/original\/vlcsnap-2025-08-11-11h46m20s687.jpg?1755353075\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/filmfreeway-production-storage-01-connector.filmfreeway.com\/attachments\/files\/009\/729\/807\/original\/vlcsnap-2025-08-11-11h45m46s351.jpg?1755353073\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/filmfreeway-production-storage-01-connector.filmfreeway.com\/press_kits\/headshots\/003\/573\/434\/original\/a0f2f468ef-headshot.jpg?1770747231\" alt=\"\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1;object-fit:cover;width:200px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Mayro Romero<\/strong> (Portoviejo, \u00c9quateur, 1995) est cin\u00e9aste, artiste visuelle et chercheur trans no binarix. Son travail explore les croisements entre les archives, la m\u00e9moire et l&rsquo;imagination, avec l&rsquo;apprentissage des enfances trans et maricas, proposant le r\u00e9sultat comme m\u00e9thodologie po\u00e9tique et \u00e9pist\u00e9mologique dans le cin\u00e9ma documentaire. En 2025, il a re\u00e7u le Prince Claus Seed Award, l&rsquo;une des reconnaissances internationales les plus pertinentes pour les artistes \u00e9mergents, consolidant ainsi leur projection dans la sc\u00e8ne mondiale. Auparavant, il a \u00e9t\u00e9 s\u00e9lectionn\u00e9 pour les programmes et laboratoires de prestige comme Talents Buenos Aires (Argentine, 2022) et le Laboratoire DIP \u2013 Documentaire, Intimit\u00e9 et Puesta en Escena (Espagne, 2024), partag\u00e9 par les cin\u00e9astes et penseurs comme Lucrecia Martel, Maite Alberdi et Petra Costa. Ses films ont \u00e9t\u00e9 s\u00e9lectionn\u00e9s dans des festivals internationaux comme EDOC (\u00c9quateur), Oaxaca FilmFest (Mexique), BISFF \u2013 Beijing International Short Film Festival (Chine), LA Underground Film Forum (\u00c9tats-Unis), o\u00f9 ils ont obtenu une mention d&rsquo;honneur en 2019, ainsi que des festivals en Croatie, en Espagne, en Colombie et en Belgique.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><strong>Mayro Romero<\/strong> (Portoviejo, Ecuador, 1995) is a trans\/non-binary filmmaker, visual artist, and researcher. Their work explores the intersections of archives, memory, and imagination\u2014drawing upon the lived experiences of trans and queer childhoods\u2014and proposes the resulting insights as a poetic and epistemological methodology within documentary cinema. In 2025, they received the Prince Claus Seed Award\u2014one of the most significant international accolades for emerging artists\u2014thereby solidifying their presence on the global stage. Previously, they were selected for prestigious programs and labs such as Talents Buenos Aires (Argentina, 2022) and the DIP Laboratory (Documentary, Intimacy, and Staging; Spain, 2024), alongside filmmakers and thinkers like Lucrecia Martel, Maite Alberdi, and Petra Costa. Their films have been selected for international festivals including EDOC (Ecuador), Oaxaca FilmFest (Mexico), BISFF \u2013 Beijing International Short Film Festival (China), and the LA Underground Film Forum (USA)\u2014where they received an Honorable Mention in 2019\u2014as well as festivals in Croatia, Spain, Colombia, and Belgium. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":16619,"menu_order":7,"template":"","portfolio-category":[610],"portfolio-tag":[],"class_list":["post-16592","portfolio","type-portfolio","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","portfolio-category-videodrome2-30-oct-2026-20h"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.instantsvideo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio\/16592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.instantsvideo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.instantsvideo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/portfolio"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.instantsvideo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.instantsvideo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"portfolio-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.instantsvideo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio-category?post=16592"},{"taxonomy":"portfolio-tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.instantsvideo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio-tag?post=16592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}