Frames of Reference
Volume 3 Program 3
Geographies

In Geographies, the camera is used to navigate and chart geographic, social, and psychological spaces.


Medias Mentiras (Half-Lies)
Ximena Cuevas
37:00  1995
Ximena Cuevas playfully erodes the borders of fact and fiction in a trip through the cultural landscape of Mexico. Her collage of images and personalities culled from television, mass media, and daily life, offers a wry commentary on the state of politics, gender roles, and class in a tumultuous era of rapid change in Mexico.  


Tierra Sagrada en Zona de Conflicto (Sacred Land in the Zone of Conflict)
Carlos Martinez Suarez
49:00  2000
In the documentary Tierra Sagrada en Zona de Conflicto (Sacred Land in the Zone of Conflict), Martínez Suarez works with an indigenous community in Chiapas to give testament to the destruction and dissention that the ongoing presence of the Mexican government’s military troops in the region have caused.