Working, Weaving, Filming

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Three short films by Mexican/American experimental documentarian Naomi Uman and Colombian/French filmmaker Laura Huertas Millán 

The films in “Working, Weaving, Filming” use nonfiction practices expansively to portray people's daily labors. The central films of the program, LECHE (1998) and LA LIBERTAD (2017), situate themselves within the working lives of two different families across Mexico.  Shown alongside her short film HAND EYE COORDINATION (2002), which “tells the story of its own making,” the pair advances a manually-processed, hand-crafted vision of artist’s cinema. Laura Huertas Millán’s LA LIBERTAD is a sensorially rich portrait of a community of matriarchal weavers working with pre-Hispanic techniques and seeking economic freedom through practices of craftsmanship near Oaxaca. 

Screening followed by a conversation with Cordelia Rizzo (Ph.D. in Performance Studies at Northwestern University) an activist-scholar from Monterrey, Mexico with a background in Human Rights and Philosophy.