Matriarchs have assembled around a backstrap loom, a pre-Hispanic technique preserved by indigenous women of Mesoamerica. Unfolding like a weaving of figures and the gestures making up this labor, the film circulates between a domestic space, an archaeological museum, and a weavers’ cooperative.
Produced at Harvard’s Sensory Ethnography Lab (Leviathan, Manakamana), La Libertad dives into a matriarchal universe and knits a rich portrait of female independence. Through the exploration of an ancestral craft, Laura Huertas Millán’s film quietly challenges our idea of freedom.
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Ali Samadi Ahadi, 2010, Germany
Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2012, Thailand
Kamila Andini, 2015, Indonesia
Stephen Quay,Timothy Quay, 1986, United Kingdom
Fernand Melgar, 2008, Switzerland
Clément Cogitore, 2007, Switzerland
Peter Tscherkassky, 1985, Austria
Lee Hirsch, 2011, United States
