Nuestra voz de tierra, memoria y futuro documents the first years of the Cauca Regional Indigenous Council (CRIC) and its struggle to reclaim ancestral territories, reflecting on the centuries-long oppression of farmers and indigenous peoples in Colombia. Fusing straightforward documentation and fantastical visualization, the film mingles myth, poetry, and popular memory while capturing a defining moment in the modern indigenous rights movement.
Nuestra voz de tierra, memoria y futuro (Our Voice of Earth, Memory and Future, Marta Rodríguez and Jorge Silva, 1981, 108’, b/w, Spanish with English subtitles)
Introduced by Marwa Arsanios
Kino Toni
ZHdK, Toni-Areal, Pfingstweidstrasse 96, 8005 Zürich
Marwa Arsanios’ practice tackles structural questions using different devices, forms, and strategies. She tries to look at questions of property, law, economy and ecology from specific plots of land. The main protagonists become these lands and the people who work them. In her practice, film becomes a space for connecting struggles in the way that images refer to each other.
Territories of Paranational Cinema is a cooperation between Kulturwissenschaftliche Filmforschung at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and the SNSF-funded research project Paranational Cinema – Legacies and Practices at the Department of Film Studies, University of Zurich. The program has been organized by Brigitta Kuster (HU) and Philip Widmann (UZH) and is supported by a strategic partnership grant from Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.