“Arder en deseo” is the result of a Super8 cartridge shot in April 2023 in Santiago de Chile, materializing three different desires for three different images: the first scene depicts “Plaza Dignidad” from various angles (the starting point of the Estallido social of October 18th 2019); the second is a quote of Hippolyte Bayard’s photographic self‑portrait posing as a drowned man from October 18th 1840; and the third shows two empty chairs in connection with the first scene of the empty monument. Using the “obsolete” medium of analog film, the work creates a temporal anachronism, a technological ellipsis, in which memory, oblivion and disappearance enter into poetic dialogue fifty years after the Chilean coup d’état.