Love & Death: Lauren-Marie Taylor and John Didrichsen on Girls Nite Out
In San Pedro Amuzgos, Oaxaca, the director's reflections and questions invite us into his world, where Zoila's loom creates a natural music to tell the story of the life and death of Donato, the town'…
Love & Death: Lauren-Marie Taylor and John Didrichsen on Girls Nite Out
In San Pedro Amuzgos, Oaxaca, the director's reflections and questions invite us into his world, where Zoila's loom creates a natural music to tell the story of the life and death of Donato, the town's most famous violinist. To director Ismael Vásquez Bernabé, San Pedro Amuzgos in Oaxaca, Mexico, is a vast loom on which every person is a thread, necessary to the integrity of the whole community. But what happens when a thread snaps? As a child, Vásquez Bernabé would lie under his mother's loom and ponder life beyond his own existence in his small town. Now, as an adult, he follows this curiosity by focusing on the very community that raised him. Weaving together the stories of three members of the community-Donato, a recently deceased legendary violinist; his son Lorenzo, who is attempting to uphold his father's legacy; and his own mother, Zoila, the only one of her sisters who still practices the art of weaving-Vásquez Bernabé explores the importance of carrying on traditions that are essential to a community's survival. "It's up to us who remain to rescue the cloth on the loom."
Love & Death: Lauren-Marie Taylor and John Didrichsen on Girls Nite Out
Documentary,Horror
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In San Pedro Amuzgos, Oaxaca, the director's reflections and questions invite us into his world, where Zoila's loom creates a natural music to tell the story of the life and death of Donato, the town's most famous violinist. To director Ismael Vásquez Bernabé, San Pedro Amuzgos in Oaxaca, Mexico, is a vast loom on which every person is a thread, necessary to the integrity of the whole community. But what happens when a thread snaps? As a child, Vásquez Bernabé would lie under his mother's loom and ponder life beyond his own existence in his small town.
Now, as an adult, he follows this curiosity by focusing on the very community that raised him. Weaving together the stories of three members of the community-Donato, a recently deceased legendary violinist; his son Lorenzo, who is attempting to uphold his father's legacy; and his own mother, Zoila, the only one of her sisters who still practices the art of weaving-Vásquez Bernabé explores the importance of carrying on traditions that are essential to a community's survival. "It's up to us who remain to rescue the cloth on the loom.".