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ProgrammeGuest Indigenous filmmaker:
Yolanda Cruz
Thursday 29 October, De Balie, 20.00 hrs, 103'
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Reencuentros: entre la memoria y la nostalgia
2501 Migrants: A Journey
Yolanda Cruz, 2008, 57' Reencuentros: entre la memoria y la nostalgia explores questions of art, the artist, and indigenous community in the context of global migration. The film illustrates the exodus of thousands of primarily poor and young indigenous Mexicans to the "first world" in search of a brighter future through the story of Alejandro Santiago, a middle-aged artist and family man from Oaxaca, Mexico. Alejandro returns home after a brief self-exile in France, but upon arrival to his native Teococuilco, he is struck by what he perceives as a virtual "ghost town." Inspired by this, he decides to create a monumental installation art piece: an homage to each individual migrant who left his village. Is Alejandro Santiago an example of an "artist as catalyst for social change?" Is 2,501 Migrants an original model for creating art around community building? |
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Sueños Binacionales
Bi-National Dreams
Yolanda Cruz, 2004, 30' A documentary about the bi-national experience of indigenous immigrants from Mexico. Sueños Binacionales tells the stories of the Mixtec people who have been immigrating to California for over 30 years and the more recent stories of the Chatinos who have been immigrating to North Carolina for the past 10 years. |