This project's subject matter is light, earth, and their temporalities. We investigate time through film, correspondence, poetry, and other time-based elements that converse and suggest alternative affective formations in times of increased oppression and empty solidarities.
These seemingly protocoled, "objective" images are cast against the perpetrator's distance, bias, and self-attributed authority, immediately channeling these images into a millennium-old friend/enemy epistemology of empire.
La Parada imbricates hope–in its historical relationship with the Hasidic community–and pain for hundreds of women. Therefore, the collaborative film seeks to expose and challenge the invisible, authoritarian forces along with the felt violence of its targeted representation mechanisms.
A Mexican man dreams of an encounter with La Sagrada Muerte. His plotting to undermine this it’s authority is challenged when he encounters this omnipotent mythical symbol in an unexpected fluster.