Our Land/Nuestra Tierra

(Landmarks)

In Conversation

  • Ernesto de Carvalho is a filmmaker, editor, and cinematographer, and was Director of Photography on Our Land/Nuestra Tierra.

  • Natalia Brizuela is the Class of 1930 Chair, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, and a Professor of Spanish & Portuguese and Film & Media, UC Berkeley.

From the mechanized perspective of a satellite in outer space to the drones that traverse contested valleys, Our Land/Nuestra Tierra zooms in on Argentina’s Tucumán Province to interrogate the racist colonial logic that supported the theft of land from Indigenous inhabitants by white settlers. More than ten years in the making, the film centers on the 2018 trial of the murderers of Chuschagasta activist Javier Chocobar. Lucrecia Martel intersperses scenes from the trial with interviews with Chocobar’s widow and community members, their home movies, and photographs—irrefutable evidence of an existence the killers and their supporters attempt to deny.

Kate MacKay
FILM DETAILS 
Screenwriter
  • Lucrecia Martel
Cinematographer
  • Ernesto de Carvalho
Language
  • Spanish
  • with English subtitles
Print Info
  • Color
  • DCP
  • 122 mins
Source
  • Strand Releasing

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