AMBULANTE @ DOKUFEST
The Night Wachman
El Velador
Director
Natalia Almeda
Producer
Natalia Almeda
Cinematographer
Natalia Almeda
Editors
Julien Devaux
Natalia Almada
Sound
Alejandro de Icaza
Contact
Daniela Elstner
Doc & Film International
+33(0)1 42 77 56 87
[email protected]
2011
Mexico, United States
72 min
Color
From dusk to dawn El Velador accompanies Martin, the guardian angel whom, night after night, watches over the extravagant mausoleums of some of Mexico’s most notorious Drug Lords. In the labyrinth of the cemetery, this film about violence without violence reminds us how, in the turmoil of Mexico’s bloodiest conflict since the Revolution, ordinary life persists and quietly defies the dead.
Almada is a MacDowell Colony Fellow, a 2008 Guggenheim Fellow and a 2010 USA Artist Fellow and a recipient of the Alpert Award. She graduated with a Masters in Fine Arts in photography from the Rhode Island School of Design and currently lives in Mexico City.
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