Making local - Soil & Pigments
Miradas II
a film program curated by Adriana Otero Puerto
25. June 2023 - 10. September 2023
Opening Hours
Sunday: 4:30 p.m.-8 p.m.
Opening Hours
Sunday: 4:30 p.m.-8 p.m.
Save the Date
for free
for adults
in Spanish/in English
Miradas II weaves different stories and perspectives on seeds, especially maíz, its cultivation, usage, and relationship with local cultures together. Not only an elementary source of nutrition, maíz forms part of a thousand years old agroecological practice that has been and still is key to food sovereignty and the autonomy of local communities in their ways of living and working their territory.
These films will be shown as accompanying program for the exhibitions every Sunday from the 24th of June until the 10th of September 2023.
still from "Semillas, el legado de la tierra"4:30 pm
Semillas, El Legado De La Tierra (Seeds, the legacy of the land)
Directed by Fernando Valencia, Mexico, 2021
17 min, Spanish with English subtitles
Seeds are not just the source of all food. They are a metaphor for survival and persistence over generations. In rural Mexico, Camilo and Ramón harvest, curate, trade and venerate varieties of maize. The dream is to cultivate not only crops, but a culture and perhaps to sustain life itself. If traditional agriculture is the most sustainable, what will happen when elders die off?
"Sunu’"5:00 pm
Sunu’
Directed by Teresa Camou , Mexico, 2015
79 min, Spanish with English subtitles
Seen through the eyes of small, midsize, and large Mexican maize producers, Sunu’ knits together different stories from a threatened rural world. This documentary journeys deep into the heart of a country where people are determined to stay free, to work the land and cultivate their seeds, to be true to their cultures and forms of spirituality, all in a modern world that both needs them and despises them.
still from "El Maíz en los tiempos de Guerra"6:30
El Maíz en los tiempos de Guerra (Maize in times of war)
Directed by Alberto Cortés, Mexico, 2016
88 min, Wixárika and Ayuuk languages with English subtitles
An indigenous Wixárika family in northern Jalisco, an Ayuuk family in Oaxaca, and two Tzeltal families in the jungles of Chiapas discuss their cornfields, their roads, and their homes.
