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Travis Wilkerson

A Brief History of the Obliteration of Hope

  • Documentary
RELEASE

2019-08-02

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LENGTH

8 min

Description

A monument to the Tlatelolco student massacre of 1968 in Mexico City, ten days before the Olympics. Hundred of students were disappeared. A grotesque tradition - the complete physical obliteration of students organizing for progressive change - was hurled into motion. This film is nearly wordless. In place of words, the enactment of violence against the images themselves, in a stagger towards commensurate aesthetics.

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