A Land Memory
A Land Memory asks after the response-ability of the living to the dead and the land they lay inside. The story revolves around the lives and deaths of farmworkers in Colombia, the state-sanctioned murder of Lenca land defender--Berta Cáceres-- and the filmmaker's own relation to their birth-land of Honduras.
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T.J. BlancoDirector
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T.J. BlancoWriter
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Project Title (Original Language):una memoria de la tierra
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Project Type:Documentary, Experimental, Short, Student
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Runtime:7 minutes 29 seconds
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Film Color:Color
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First-time Filmmaker:No
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Student Project:Yes - University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Jordan "T.J." Blanco b.1998, is a white Latine, non-binary, experimental filmmaker based in Milwaukee, WI. They are interested in ancestral memory, mythic construction and the everyday absurdity of life under Neoliberalist Late Stage Capitalism. Their work seeks to mine memory and hold the spirit, as an act of resistance to the psychic numbing of the contemporaneous moment many of us find ourselves in.
In my longing for my homeland, I decided to make this short as an act of both remembrance and warning.