With an interest in poetic mechanisms of memory and projection, Mateo Vega (Lima, Peru, 1994) explores notions of “lost futures.” sketches for center, ring, mall is a work-in-progress iteration of an ongoing film project. It is a multivocal triptych through peripheral sites of urban infrastructure: a data center, a ring road, and a run-down mall. In combining text, site-specific music, 16 mm footage, and 3D-rendered images, an exploration of the urban past and future is constructed which is a poetic materialism of decay, renewal, and failed promises. It is an attempt at critical remembering and radical projecting.