Gabriela Domínguez Ruvalcaba: “the Land Does Not Need to Be Cared for, It Is We Who Are Obstructing”

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Sitting on the grass, near a river, Dona Sebastiana is weaving in the company of her daughters and her sheep, while the cameras record a fragment of what will be the documentary Ways to cross a territory. Mexican director Gabriela Domínguez Ruvalcaba (San Cristóbal de las Casas, 44 years old) went into the Sierra Madre de Chiapas in a poetic visual essay with women pastors of the Tsotsil indigenous community to show the connection of their knowl…