Time is out of Joint
Narco-capitalism has significantly modified the rural and urban environments of contemporary Mexico. More than 40,000 acres of Indigenous forest in Michoacán, Mexico, have been appropriated by narco industries, turning it into a composite site of hidden dynamics, cartel-drug crimes and state-sponsored violence, leaving no apparent material residue, however, still affecting the production of landscape. The state of Michoacán, where most of the drug war takes place, is a strategic place for these transactions, promoting the fragmentation of narco cartels as they continue to merge with federal police force, criminal groups and local guerrillas.
Blending performance with observational approaches and ethnography, this film provides a glimpse into Indigenous rural Mexico at the intersection between ecocide, narcolabour and enforced disappearance.
Credits
Voice-over – Motomoto Sanchez
Taxi driver – Mario Arroyo
Produced by POLLO
Sound design by Christian Olsen
Additional photography by Oswaldo Toledano
Laboratory services and 2k scan provided by Frame Discreet
Production Support
El Colegio De Michoacán
Centro de Estudios en Geografia Humana
Mexico
2015 – 2018
MITACS Globalink Research Award
Canada
2015
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FORUM RIDM
Talent Lab
Rencontres Internationales du Documentaire de Montréal
2017
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Financial Support
Canada Council for the Arts.
Canada.
MITACS Globalink Research Award.
Canada.
MEES
Ministère de l’Éducation et de l’Enseignement Supérieur.
Gouvernement du Québec.
Canada.
MERST
Ministère de l’Enseignement supérieur, Recherche, Science et Technologie.
Gouvernement du Québec.
Canada.
Concordia University.
Faculty of Fine Arts.
Canada.
Talks
El Colegio De Michoacán
Cátedra de Geografía Humana Élisée Reclus
Etnografia de la Infraestructura Narco-Laboral
2018
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