LOVE SONG FOR OAXACA

FORMAT: DVD (originally shot on Nikon Coolpix)

(NOT) DIRECTED AND EDITED: karol orzechowski.

MUSIC: “010 +-4.40″ by Christian Fennesz

SCREENINGS: Balderdash Film Festival (Toronto, December 2006)

INFO: This is a document of one day of protest against the brutal repression of dissenting voices by the government of Mexico in the wake of the 2006 presidential election. The conservative Filipe Calderon Hinojosa was “elected” by an electoral tribunal, after results were deemed too close to call in a race that echoed the US “election” of 2000 in more ways than one. When many thousands of people took to the streets in protest (including the people of Oaxaca, who were already facing repression from the Mexican government for a widespread strike that was a few months old) the government responded with serious muscle. In Oaxaca, more than a dozen protestors and resistors were killed for fighting for what they believed in. This is my love song to them, to let them know that as the government had them surrounded at the Autonomous University of Oaxaca, there were many people all over the world who were trying to amplify their voice.

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