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eBook
Atenco Lives
2019,2021
Overview
The People's Front in Defense of Land of Atenco (the \"Frente\") is
an emblematic force in contemporary Mexican politics and in
anti-capitalist, anti-neoliberal activist networks throughout the
world. Best known for years of resistance against the encroachment
of a government airport project on communal farmland, the Frente
also became international news when its members were subject to
state violence, rape, and intimidation in a brutal government
crackdown in 2006. Through it all, documentary filmmaking has been
one aspect of the Frente and its allies' efforts. The
contradictions and difficulties of this moral and political project
emerge in the day-to-day experiences of local, national, and
international filmmakers and film distributors seeking to
participate in the social movement. Stone highlights the importance
of how the circulation of the physical videos, and not just their
content, promotes the social movement. More broadly she shows how
videographers perform their activism, navigating the tensions
between neoliberal personhood or ego and an ethos of compañerismo
that privileges community. Grounded in the lived experiences of
Atenco's activists and allied filmmakers, Atenco Lives!
documents the making and circulating of films as an ethical and
political practice purposefully used to transform human
relationships.
Publisher
Vanderbilt University Press
Subject
ISBN
0826522246, 9780826522245, 0826522254, 9780826522252
