Atlas Of Disappearance

After 80 years of silence, new forensic technologies help a group of families reconstruct the fate of their relatives, whose bodies were stolen and secretly transferred to the mausoleum of their executioner. Facing legal and bureaucratic obstacles, the film uses digital techniques and archival materials to trace the disappeared to the Valley of the Fallen, restoring what repression tried to erase.

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“Atlas of Disappearance responds to a long-standing effort to conceal the violence of the Franco regime through silence, bureaucracy, and institutional resistance. Despite recent legislative progress, exhumation projects remain stalled, leaving families—some now in their third or fourth generation—without answers, without graves, and without closure.

To address this situation, I founded the Documentary Research Office (OID), a transdisciplinary research unit composed of geographers, filmmakers, architects, and artists. This collective draws inspiration from my experience working with the Forensic Architecture project in London. Our mission is to restore visibility to what was meant to remain hidden: mass graves, forced transfers, detention centers, and other erased geographies of violence.

Through digital mapping, forensic reconstruction, and situated testimony, OID works to create a shared and accessible archive of truth, grounded in rigorous research and collective care. This film brings that work to the screen, bringing together data and memory, space and history, so that those who have suffered disappearance may find a place to mourn, remember, and demand justice.”
— Manuel Correa, director.