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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.
“...this zine is an effort that situates itself not in the position of a formulator nor organizer of knowledge but rather as a concerned documentary practitioner who is not willing to abide by the apologist and self-manufacturing theories of working with and in difference.”
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.