2023 | Ecuador | Short

1922

  • English - 30 mins
  • Director | Libertad Gills
  • Writer | -
  • Producer | -

STATUS: Released

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How to make a film about an event for which there are no moving images? In my search to make a project about Ecuador's largest worker's strike, which ended in the massacre of hundreds or thousands of workers in 1922 (and of which there are no moving images), I turn to other work from that same year. Inspired by Hito Steyerl's essay "In Defense of the Poor Image", this found-footage essay-film reclaims the "poor image" in the context of past and present class struggles in Ecuador.

Ecuadorian history Class struggles Workers' strike 1922 Historical film Labor movements Massacre of 1922
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