Ways of being home : between Northfield & Maltrata / a film by Cecilia Cornejo Sotelo in collaboration with members of the Latinx community of Northfield, Minnesota ; writing, editing, sound design, Cecilia Cornejo Sotelo.

[New York, New York] : Women Make Movies, [2020]

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This cinematic portrait of two small towns -- one in Mexico and one in Minnesota -- is an evocative audiovisual meditation on the experience of Mexican immigrants living and working in rural America. Vivid cinematography, richly layered soundscapes, short animated sequences, and a constellation of testimonies introduce audiences to Maltrata, an agricultural town nestled in the mountains of Veracruz, Mexico, and to Northfield, a college town in southern Minnesota where many Maltratans have immigrated and settled. By means of a nonlinear narrative and a camera that thoughtfully yet viscerally meanders between everyday scenes in both towns, Chilean-American director Cecilia Cornejo Sotelo shows the complexities of, and contrasts between, these places.

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Spanish; English

October 05, 2022

Photography & direct sound, Cecilia Cornejo Sotelo, Fernando Saldivia Yáñez, George Zuccolotto ; music, George Zuccolotto.

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