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In 1945, my grandmother on my mother’s side worked as an extra in a film featuring Libertad Lamarque. The name of that film is Cita en la Frontera (translatable as ‘Meeting/Date/Encounter At The Border’). It is an early movie by L. Lamarque who later became one of the biggest movie stars of the Spanish- speaking world. Until I recently watched Cita En La Frontera, I wasn’t aware of the extent to which films of this time had shaped both of my grandmothers’ mannerisms, body language, and their voices (specially, their singing voices). Through the use of sounds from the movie, Fantasía… is an oneiric and nostalgic account of that kind of 40’s glamour, at once shy and loud, at the same time proper and unapologetically melodramatic.