MEMORIES FOR SALE
Mexico, Great Britain, 2009, 25 min
Carolina Corral Paredes
27.01.2012 19:25
Doňa Rosa is an indigenous old woman who sells crafts in the market. Carlos is an enthusiastic tour guide who offers tours into indigenous people´s houses and families, including Paola´s. Their lives are dedicated to provide what a group of inquisitive tourists – and a filmaker – might be looking for in an indigenous and picturesque region in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas.
Carolina Corral Paderes graduated from the MA in Visual Anthropology in 2009 from the University of Manchester and enrolled in the Socail Anthropology with Visual Media PhD program at the same University. She is currently developing a collaborative project involving film that will look at the lives of former prisoners in Mexico.
Director and production: Carolina Corral Paderes
Language of dialogues:Spanish, English
Language of subtitles: English, Czech
Lauching of movie (selection):
Etnofilm ČADCA, Slovakia, Award of the film Journalist
Contro Sguardi, International Anthropological Film Festival, Italy,2010, Special Mention
14 Mostra Internacional de Filme Etnográfico, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, 2009
Festival du Filme Ethnographic Film Festival, London, Great Britain, 2010
Ethnographic Film Unit Festival, British Colombia, Canada, 2010
II. Festival do Filme Etnográfico de Recife, Recife, Brasil, 2010
XIX International Festival of Ethnological Film, Belgrade, Serbia, 2010
Royal Anthropological Institut, Manchester, Great Britain, 2011
Days of etnographic cinema, Moscow, Russian, 2011
This film narrates the meeting with Sara Marielle Gaup and Lawra Somby, two young performers of joik (Sami chanting technique), born in the north and the south of Sápmi (the cultural nationhood of Sami people in North Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia). They have come together through a creative musical project called “Adjágas” which in Sami means “the state between sleep and awakening”. In this peculiar state one can unveil reality and tune into the most profound and original joiks. Adjágas, in this way bring the musical-lyrical practice of joik toward the international musical scene by performing with musicians of different horizons, and adapting its performances to the context of reception. The protagonists express different ways of life and concerns, relating also to what it means to be young artists with an indigenous background, having to work a way into the musical industry. It is also a film about what in the waves of the past is worth struggling for understanding, and how joik brings together everyday life, politics and spirituality and becomes a language healing the pain from the colonial history of the past.
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