Carlos Vásquez Méndez
2021Las cruces
Teresa Arredondo, Carlos Vásquez Méndez
In September 1973, 19 paper mill workers were imprisoned and taken to the Laja police station. Six years later, their bodies were found in Yumbel’s cemetery. After almost 40 years, one of the policemen involved broke the pact of silence they had made the night of the killing, revealing the participation of the Paper Manufacturing Company (CMPC) in the murder. Today, the case is still open and awaiting sentence.
Las cruces
[Pewen] Araucaria
Carlos Vásquez Méndez
[PEWEN] ARAUCARIA shows the journey of a young poet after a long grief and loss to the ancestral land of the Pewenche people, in southern Chile. This diptych film reveals in one side as the poet establishes a relationship with the landscape marked by the wounds of the spanish colonization, marginalization by the state and abandonment that the indigenous peoples are subjected in Chile, on the other side, the film let us to glimpse a delicate and profound dialogue with this apparently strange world through the poet’s encounter with images of two Pewenche brothers and their relationship with the trees on which they base their livelihood.
[Pewen] Araucaria
mtDNA 1Ce hg
Carlos Vásquez Méndez
mtDNA 1Ce hg is a landscape study, shot in northern Iceland at 16mm, approximately 400 feet long. This piece shows an environment stripped of the human figure, evoked only by its vestiges, apparently abandoned in the solitude of a barren terrain and an inclement climate. The title of the piece appeals an archaic link between who looks and the environment that crosses with a certain strangeness in capturing a small fragment of the history of the crossroads.
mtDNA 1Ce hg
Vientos del Oeste / Vientos del Este
Carlos Vásquez Méndez
Western Winds/Eastern Winds is an experimental documentary film work about the roads passing through a small andean border town and the ways that connect it with history, modernity and the territory, also with those passages less visible, marginals and forgotten, that evoke past migrations in the west and the east side of this imaginary border.
Western Winds/Eastern Winds