Drawn from material captured during his time as casting director on Shirin Neshat’s Tooba (2002) production in Oaxaca, Varela’s film reconfigures the images of non-professional Oaxacan actors. Cuerpos complementarios reflects on voices and lives made invisible, “missing people”, by repurposing the detritus of that production into a layered, trans-temporal meditation on labor, erasure, and the haunting persistence of presence