Artists' Television Access

[Cancelled] MANOS & Lacustre

Friday, March 27, 2020, 8:00 pm, $7-$10, $7-$10

Manos and Lacustre are two films that look at labor as a seed to think about ecological phenomenon, gender, labor, and liquidity.

Manos is a social surrealist film is about working class women in Uruguay and Argentina. In a dream-like language, woven by hands, ants, and liquidity, it traces manual labor and horizontal mutual aid among working class women. From the sequences of fisherwomen, manicurists, protestors, glove inspectors, clinicians, and mothers, rises a chorus of care, labor, resistance, struggle, trauma, and collective action. Manos presents time zones of labor as a seed to think about ecological phenomenon, gender, and liquidity(48 mins)

Lacustre is a documentary film that takes place at a lake known as Laguna de Zapotlán, in Jalisco, Mexico. It paints an observational portrait of landscape that is untethered from discernible chronologies and ornative arcs; instead bearing witness to the temporalities of land and labor while it directs our gaze and points towards an everyday life that faces the complexities of climate, ecological and industrial change within this lacustrine region, (2019, 48min.)  


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