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The Veins That Bind Us: Part 2
Episodes 3 & 4 of the Las Venas documentary film series from Veracruz, Mexico.
Oaxaca
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The Veins That Bind Us
A documentary film series celebrating indigenous solidarity and creative resistance across Mexico’s Isthmus of Tehuantepec.
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“¿Quiénes son?”
Oaxacan hip hop crew Juchirap has gained acclaim as one of Mexico’s up and coming acts, earning praise for their old-school rhythms and performances in their native Diidxazá (Zapotec) language.
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Isthmus at the Crossroads
The grisly murders of 15 Iko’ots activists in July 2020 created a wave of backlash that pitted community leaders against one another and threatens to undermine communal governance structures among one of Mexico’s most unintegrated Indigenous groups.
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Butterfly with Broken Wings
Near a small village on the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, the brother of celebrated muxe performance artist Lukas Avendaño vanished one afternoon, leading him on a two year journey in search of his brother or his remains.
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Harbour Blues, Salina Cruz
Rafael Mayoral recalls spending the idylls of his youth in Salina Cruz and the three development projects that ultimately devastated the gritty port city and left fallow farmlands, water shortages, and urban poverty in their wake.
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Lapiztola + Chiquitraca: Collective Crises
Oaxaca’s renowned street art is rooted in the political upheaval and months-long protests that enveloped the city in the summer 2006 and cemented a legacy of subversive, underground public art that continues to thrive today.
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A Brief History of Mexico’s Transoceanic Trade Route
Since Columbus and Cortés, nearly every colonial expedition to the coasts of the Americas was driven by the desire to discover a passage linking the Atlantic and Pacific oceans and facilitate trade for the Spanish Crown. Five hundred years later, that dream will soon be realized.
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“No Maize Es No Pais”: Accounting as Artistic Practice
In a small, nondescript building on the outskirts of Oaxaca, conceptual artist and accountant Edith Morales has created an experimental urban “milpa” garden to study the ancient system of Mixe agriculture and document Oaxaca’s endemic species of maize for future generations.
