FILMSCREENINGPROGRAM

CHEMISTRY BUILDING ROOM 51 Wednesday 07 August, 14-17:30 Hours LATIN AMERICAN FILM PROGRAMME Conveners: Carlos Flores & Angela Torresan
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The Latin American Film Programme is connected to the Visual Anthropology Track Panel V03, in which authors discuss how and whether the use of audio-visual media in their research has elicited new forms of ethnographic connections, political engagement, and regional aesthetics. Although, not all the films screened in the Latin American film programme have been directed by authors who will present in the panel, they share the same concern and will prompt similar discussions. The panellists in V03 and the directors in the Latin America Film programme all seek to explore how images are helping anthropologists and other social scientists to engage with alternative understandings of reality that are currently flourishing in Latin America. Let us fish! (work in progress), 25 min./ 2013 (Mexico) Research/camera/sound/editing: Alejandra Navarro Cocopah indigenous fishermen and fisherwomen struggle to make their right to their territory recognized. Since 1993, they have been banned to continue to fish in their historic territory: the Colorado River Delta in Baja California, Mxico. Since then, they took the long journey to promote a law change for a sustainable indigenous fishing practice in a country where environmental laws ignore the survival needs for indigenous populations and where they continue to be dispossessed. Fuera de foco (Out of Focus) 36 min./2013 (Mexico) Anthropologist-Filmmakers : Adrin Arce and Antonio Zirin This is a collaborative documentary about arts, culture and everyday life inside a prison for minors. It was shot during a photography and video workshop with young inmates at the Juvenile Community for Specialized Treatment in San Fernando, Mexico City. K'ixba'l (Shame ) 38 min./2012 (Guatemala) Anthropologist-Filmmaker: Carlos Y Flores In the western highlands of Guatemala, three young indigenous men accused of stealing a pick-up truck were captured by villagers who decided to correct them according to Mayan law. The procedure was captured on video by members of the community, affording a rare opportunity to see from within and in the words of the actors themselves how Mayan communities are revitalizing the norms and practices of their communal justice with elements of their own cosmovision or world view. This documentary is part of an anthropological research project in collaboration with indigenous authorities in Santa Cruz del Quiche, Guatemala. Onde Nascen as Pedras (Where the Stones are Born). 27 min./2011 (Brazil) Anthropologist-Filmmaker: Peregrina Capelo Where the Stones are Born explores the social and environmental aesthetics of the semi-arid area in Cear, a state in the Northeast Region of Brazil. These areas have suffered from chronic droughts and have been affected by a long-term process of desertification. The film looks at the relationship between the sertajeno and his/her landscape and the tense connections between ambient and human and not human life.

Two Justices, The Challenges of Inter-legal Coordination. 39 min./2012 (Guatemala) Anthropologist-Filmmaker: Carlos Y Flores This documentary was made within an anthropological collaboration with the indigenous mayoralty of Santa Cruz del Quich, Guatemala, using material filmed by non-professional K'iche' cameramen during the legal procedures that followed a murder in the canton of Las Casas. In the words of the actors themselves, the film shows the complex inter-legal coordination that took place between the supporters of indigenous law and state justice officials in this region of Guatemala.