2014, DigiBeta, Color, 60’, Maya Language, Spanish, Spanish, English Subtitled, Spain
Director: Eva Vilamala, Script: Eva Vilamala, Cinematographer: Eva Vilamala, Mireia Sallarès, Editing: Eva Vilamala, Sound: Idea Sonora, Music: Paulo Alvarado, Production: Photographic Social Vision
In Guatemala, between 1960 and 1966, more than 200.000 people were killed in systematic oppression and massacres, in parts where Mayas were the majority. Photographer Miquel Dewever-Plana brings together exhuming processes and his testimonies in a book namesake as the film. Years after, Mayas come back for this book which tells their own story.
I think it was Frank Zappa – though others claim it was Laurie Anderson – who said in an interview that ‘writing on music is much like dancing on architecture’.
In 1998 Ben Jakober and Yannick Vu collaborated on an obvious remake of Marcel Duchamp’s Roue de Bicyclette, his first “readymade” object. Duchamp combined a bicycle wheel, a fork and a stool to create a machine which served no purpose, subverting accepted norms of art.
I walk over rocks hot as iron under the September sun. I can make out a few lines in the distance, and a few cracked rocks, but apart from those, not a single tree, not one plant
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