© Liza Ambrossio, Too Strong for Fantasy, 2018
Liza Ambrossio
VER TANTO Y ESTAR TAN CIEGO, 2023 – 30′ – COLOR
CULTURAL INSTITUTE OF MEXICO IN FRANCE
Director : Liza Ambrossio
Production : Town of Logroño, Spain
« I feel that to be truly free, you have to see your father die and kill your mother. »
Through a psychedelic plot, this 30-minute film breaks down the creative process of Ambrossio’s
multidisciplinary work. Her own voice guides the viewer through a temporal, spatial and conceptual exploration of her self-critical madness.
About the artist
Liza Ambrossio (Mexico, 1993) is a Franco-Mexican multidisciplinary artist, filmmaker and women’s rights activist, living and working between France, Spain and Mexico. She began her artistic career at the age of sixteen, when she asked a former maid in her mother’s household to steal photographs from the family albums. She was looking for clues to a dark past that seemed devoid of evidence.
At the same time, in his native Mexico City, Ambrossio stages his passage from adolescence to adulthood, exploring strategies for surviving at a distance during a tumultuous process of emancipation from his family. Ambrossio embarks on a journey of psychic and physiological discovery marked by disturbances, magic, trauma, dreams and visions.
During these moments, she realizes that her inner hell contains the same torments as those that erupt on the outside.