Time is out of Joint

Narco-capitalism has significantly modified the rural and urban environments of contemporary Mexico. More than 40,000 acres of Indigenous forest in Michoacán, Mexico, have been appropriated by narco industries, turning it into a composite site of hidden dynamics, cartel-drug crimes and state-sponsored violence, leaving no apparent material residue, however, still affecting the production of landscape. The state of Michoacán, where most of the drug war takes place, is a strategic place for these transactions, promoting the fragmentation of narco cartels as they continue to merge with federal police force, criminal groups and local guerrillas.

Blending performance with observational approaches and ethnography, this film provides a glimpse into Indigenous rural Mexico at the intersection between ecocide, narcolabour and enforced disappearance.

Credits

Time is out of Joint
Color, Stereo
HD
25 mins.
2018

Directed by Victor Arroyo

Voice-over by Motomoto Sanchez
Taxi driver Mario Arroyo

Additional photography by Oswaldo Toledano
Post-production supervising by Oswaldo Toledano
Sound design by Christian Olsen
Laboratory services and 2k scan provided by Frame Discreet

Trailer 1 min.