Mexico: Migration and Memory (Film Series)
Jeff Ravel
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Participants welcome at individual sessions (series)
Prereq: None
Films shown in this series will explore the lives and experiences of rural Mexicans over the last century and a half of Mexican history, from the 1850s to NAFTA. Topics will include rural memory of national events, struggles for land rights and family relationships in the twentieth century, and the struggles in Chiapas since 1994.
Contact: Jeff Ravel, E51-285, x3-4451, ravel@mit.edu
Sponsor: History
"El Norte"
Jeff Ravel
EL NORTE (1984). This film dramatizes the flight of an Indian brother and sister who flee Guatemalan military forces in search of safety and a better life. They pass through Mexico, make a hazardous crossing at the US-Mexican border, then face the difficulties of immigrant life in Los Angeles. A moving portrayal of the clash of cultures and the desperate plight of political refugees from Latin America.
Tue Jan 15, 07-10:00pm, 56-169
"Barriers of Solitude" and "Alonso's Dream"
Jeff Ravel
BARRIERS OF SOLITUDE (1998). A rural "chronicle" evoking the memories of the town of San Jose, and setting them against major events in the post-independence period of Mexican history.
ALONSO'S DREAM (2000). Documentary treatment of a Mayan lay preacher caught between the federal government and the Zapatista uprising.
Tue Jan 22, 07-10:00pm, 56-169
"Paulina"
Jeff Ravel
PAULINA (1997). Part documentary, part fictionalized approach to the life of a rural woman whose parents traded her for land rights in the 1950s. In middle age, she returns to confront her parents and the town.
Tue Jan 29, 07-10:00pm, 56-169
Latest update: 26-Nov-2001
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