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2501 Migrantes Trailer (2010)

Trailer for the documentary 2501 Migrantes.

A Journey is a full-length documentary that explores questions of art, and indigenous community in the context of global migration.

Daily, thousands of primarily poor and young indigenous Mexicans abandon their native homes. They start voyages to the “first world” in search of jobs and the hope of a brighter future--or, indeed, any economic future at all. In their wake, they leave behind the hollow footprints of a cultural and domestic abandonment. 2501 Migrants illustrates this through the story of Alejandro Santiago, a middle-aged artist and family man from Oaxaca, Mexico. Relatively affluent and erudite, Alejandro returns home after a brief self-exile in France. But upon arrival to his native Teococuilco, he is struck by what he perceives as a virtual “ghost town.” Alejandro experiences, first hand, the reality that Oaxaca has emerged as one of Mexico’s leading “exporters of human labor” to the United States. Inspired by this, he decides to create a monumental installation art piece: 2,501 life-size sculptures— an homage to each individual migrant who left his village.

Duration
10 min 45 sec

Views
63,978

Posted On
February 16, 2010
Director
Yolanda Cruz

Writer
Yolanda Cruz

Studio
Independent

Release
February 11, 2010
Cast
Unknown or Not Available
Trailer Tracks
No Music Available
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