Soy un ser cuyas raíces // I am a being whose roots

Soy un ser cuyas raíces // I am a being whose roots

(video | Canada | 12:48 | 2018 | sound colour | English & Spanish) reworks Jacques Madvo’s Countries & People: Venezuela to explore labour and migration. Taking the final words of the film’s voice-over as a starting point, Soy un ser cuyas raíces // I am a being whose roots pairs Madvo’s film footage with a text-based conversation with young Venezuelan literature scholar and language teacher Angel Said Dominguez Pinto. Dominguez Pinto relocated to Panama in 2014 to make a living teaching English, Spanish & German in Panama City after Venezuela’s economic collapse. Over email, we co-authored a conversational text, exploring migration, labour, exile, and hemispheric relationships.

Commissioned by LIFT (the Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto) for the Madvo Collection artist commission project

Distributed by the CFMDC (Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre)

Screenings:

LIFT presents: The Madvo Collection Commissioning Project | 12 November 2018 @ the Film Theater at the Rubenstein Arts Center, Duke University (Durham, NC, USA)

aluCine Latin Film + Media Arts Festival | 5 October 2018 @ Jackman Hall, Art Gallery of Ontario (Toronto, Canada)

The Madvo Collection Commissioning Project | 23 January 2018 @ The Revue Cinema (Toronto, Canada)