Made in Argentina & Chile Short Film Programme
A Haitian migrant in Chile is praised as worker, model and patient, yet remains unseen; an academic gaze reveals admiration that masks discrimination and a body reduced to an idea.
A Haitian migrant in Chile is praised as worker, model and patient, yet remains unseen; an academic gaze reveals admiration that masks discrimination and a body reduced to an idea.
Set against Chile’s recent wave of Haitian migration, the story follows a single day: valued everywhere, recognised nowhere. Praised as worker, model and patient, he is viewed through a detached, scholarly lens that invites us to witness cruelty without spectacle. Between composed framing and understated humour, what emerges is a critique of invisibilisation, how beauty standards and public systems admire a ‘strong, exotic’ body while confining a life to precarious work and social edges.


