An Amazonian artist descended from a nation massacred by rubber tappers meets the granddaughter of one of them. They share their traumatic memories and look for ways to heal and reconcile with a past that will not cease to disturb them.
89 min., 2025
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Stories of Rubber in the Peruvian Amazon - teaser
Through the stories of four indigenous artists, activists, and their families, this educational documentary revisits the tragic events that took place during the “rubber boom” of early twentieth century in the Putumayo region, where over 30,000 indigenous people lost their lives after being enslaved and tortured by the rubber barons.
70 min., 2016
An Andean migrant family in Maryland travels to their town in Cabanaconde, Arequipa, to celebrate the annual patronal festival that they sponsored two decades earlier. A new look at the Andean migrant community in the US that we presented in Transnational Fiesta: 1992.
82 min., 2014
The Author Wanders
An intimate reading of "Camina el Autor," key chapter of El Primer Nueva Coronica y Buen Gobierno, the anti-colonial illustrated manifesto submitted in 1615 to the Spanish king by Inca chronicler Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala. An ethnopoetic performance by Andean writer Fredy Roncalla. Music by Daniel Kirwayo
9:32 min., 2011
Arguedas in Ourselves - trailer
Five Peruvian artists, intellectuals and activists have an intimate conversation about the legacy of famed Andean author José María Arguedas. Speaking from their creative and personal experience, they offer penetrating insights into Arguedas’ vision that is at once local and global, classic and postmodern.
28 min., 2011
A four-part ethnographic film series
This series presents an historical ethnography of Kandyan dance and explores its transformation from a local ritual-based dance form, the Kohomba Kankariya, into a national symbol of traditional Sinhala culture, the ethnic majority in Sri Lanka.
26 min., 2010