Patricia Alvarez Astacio will discuss and screen her short films El Señor de los Milagros and Entretejido.
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El Señor de los Milagros (9min). Directed by Patricia Alvarez Astacio and Christopher Newman
Lord of Miracles is an observational portrait of the annual procession of ‘El Señor de los Milagros’ in Lima, Peru. This film attempts to embed the viewer amidst the procession in an effort to illustrate the unique ways religious devotion is manifested in one of Peru’s most important religious procession.
Entretejido (32min). Directed by Patricia Alvarez Astacio
Entretejido is a sensorial immersion into the textures that compose the Peruvian alpaca supply chain of alpaca fashions, from animal to runway. It is a film about the creation, depth and tension of surfaces.
Patricia Alvarez Astacio (Brandeis University) is an anthropologist and filmmaker whose scholarly research and creative practice develops in the folds between ethnography, critical theory, sensory ethnography, and the documentary arts. Her most recent works converge on issues of gender and ethnic representations in neoliberal, post-authoritarian Peru. She is currently working on her book manuscript Moral Fibers: Making Fashion Ethical, and she is the co-editor of the Multimodal section of American Anthropologist. Her film Entretejido (2019) premiered at the Havana International Film Festival.
Part of Art at the Borders of the Political. Across the Americas, visual artists reveal the limitations of official state- authorized “truth and reconciliation” projects and the importance of including everyday people in the work of memory and protest. Through a series of film screenings, public talks and exhibitions, micro-seminars and participatory pop-up installations, this project showcases the power of art and sensory scholarship to move beyond the tropes of victimhood or heroic resistance and reveal democratic energies.
Sponsored by the Simpson Center for the Humanities. Co-sponsored by Comparative History of Ideas, Latin American and Caribbean Studies, and Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington.