A Bundle of Silences (Un montón de silencios)

A Bundle of Silences is an experimental documentary about the 1983 Águila Blanca heist, when the Puerto Rican revolutionary group Los Macheteros expropriated $7 million from a Wells Fargo depot. Centered on Víctor Gerena, the employee who carried out the robbery and disappeared, and his mother, Gloria, a leader in the Puerto Rican community of Hartford, Connecticut, the film weaves testimonies, archives, and film processed with tobacco and coffee to explore silences, lacunas and the limits of documentary forms.