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PUNTOS SUSPENSIVOS
Directors
Alfonso Díaz Tovar
Paola Ovalle
Producers
Adolfo Soto Curiel
Cinematographers
Teresa Rodríguez
Editors
Teresa Rodríguez
Music
Roy Castelazo
Contact
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2 TWENTY 22
Laboratory of Visual Anthropology IIA-UNAM
Audio -visual Tortolos
NK Studio
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2015
Mexico
9 min
Color
Common objects like clothes, a trophy, a wallet, shoes, receipts, an identity document or an ornament become the only tangible traces that reveal the suspended wait of families of those missing. In their absence, these common devices become a treasure that shelters their memory.
Paola Ovalle specialized in the study of social violence and sociocultural processes resulting from drug consumption and trafficking. Among her main academic interests are the use of images in the sociocultural research and the videodocumentation as a research technique of community base.
Alfonso Díaz Tovar is a visual anthropologist and social psychologist. His work is focused on social practices of commemoration and remembrance places. He is director of the research project and documentary series Living Museums. Among his publications stands out Documentary film as artifact of subaltern memories.
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