US EditionCinema: with "Nuestratierra", Argentine Director Lucrecia Martel Gives the Chuschagasta People Her Story
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On the screens in France this Wednesday, April 1, the first documentary and fifth feature film by the Argentine director Lucrecia Martel, which is quickly presented as the leader of a new wave of Argentine cinema. Discovered at the San Sebastián festival last September, this film denounces the racism and colonialism still present in Argentine society, telling us the trial of the murderers of an indigenous leader, Javier Chocobar, by three white …
On 12 October 2009, after an altercation on his land, Javier Chocobar, head of the Chuchagastas community, was killed by a landowner and two policemen who wanted to take them. It will take more than nine years for the Argentine courts to deign to bring the accused to justice. Lucrecia Martel filmed the trial day by day, and traced the history of the great figures of this indigenous community. Nuestra Tierra is what is called a decolonial documen…
The great Argentine director Lucretia Martel ("Zama") makes her camera a weapon against the expropriations of the lands of the indigenous community Chuschagasta
Argentine filmmaker Lucrecia Martel transforms the precise evocation of a crime into a fresco describing the construction of narratives and representations that perpetuate oppression.
Killed in 2009, Javier Chocobar was an activist from the Chuschagasta community. “Nuestra Tierra” asks us the vertiginous question that this assassination opens up in a colonized country: who does the land belong to?
Argentina, 2009. Three white men attempt to expel members of the indigenous community of Chuschagasta, claiming ownership of the land. Armed, they kill the leader of the community, Javier Chocobar. The murder is filmed, and in 2018, after...
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