Mexicans Lost in Mexico (2020)

Synopsis

A collaboration with poet, Nico Amador, 'Mexicans Lost in Mexico' adapts archival footage, sound and poetic text to capture a memory through a circuitous and imperfect recalling. Created for the Visible Poetry Project for National Poetry Month.

Credits

Director/Editor:
Irit Reinheimer

Sound recording and design:
Irit Reinheimer

8mm Footage:
Steven Reinheimer z”l
Jack Reinheimer z”l

Poem by:
Nico Amador
First published by the Academy of American Poets, Poem a Day, January 2019
Poem title from The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolaño
Embedded epigraph from Chelsea Girls by Eileen Myles

Screenings

Visible Poetry Project (2020)
Street Movies! Scribe Video Center, Philadelphia, PA (2020)
Film and Video Poetry Symposium, Los Angelos, CA (2020)
Midwest Video Poetry Fest, Madison, WI (2020)