The period of violence in Peru raged from 1980 to 2000. Waged between two guerrilla groups—Sendero Luminoso and the Movimiento Revolucionario Túpac Amaru—and state military forces, it took almost 70,000 lives. From the 16,000 disappeared people still missing today, 600 human remains have been recovered and analysed, yet they cannot be identified. They hover under the status “NN” –“No Name.

Bullet  documents the interior of the skull of an unidentified body extrajudicially killed by the Peruvian Armed Forces in 1986. The surface of the skull is smooth, except for the fractures surrounding a small, round bullet hole. The camera penetrates this opening, revealing an abandoned rock-like landscape within, inhabited only by a suspended shell of spider’s molt.



Commissioned and produced by MOT, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo.
Co-produced by BBVA Foundation, Spain.
Produced with additional financial support from the Mondrian Fund.

Director | Maya Watanabe
Camera and editing | Maya Watanabe
Sound | Jaime E. Oliver La Rosa

Special thanks:
Equipo Forense Especializado del Ministerio Público Fiscalía de la Nación de Perú,
Sebastián Díaz Morales, Gredna Landolt, Carmen Rosa Cardoza, Alain Wittmann,
Casa Baraybar, Tegenboschvanvreden (NL) and 80mts Livia Benavides gallery (PE).