A former member of the anti-Pinochet resistance in Chile – and expert at making petrol bombs – unsettles her new neighbours
Mischief, satire and personal memoir mix with a weird little shiver of fear in this quasi-autobiographical piece by Chilean artist and film-maker Camila José Domoso, which uses a combination of digital video and Super 8. It stars her grandmother, Josefina Ramirez, playing herself, or a version of herself – the “Nona” of the title.
The opening scenes show her leaving Santiago, apparently to recuperate after a cataract operation but also needing to make a quick exit after some not-entirely-specified act of vandalism she has carried out against someone, perhaps an ex-boyfriend. She fetches up in a long-neglected second home in the coastal town of Pichilemu, which she remembers buying during the Allende era.