Salix Tree

This is a self-ethnographic document meant to be experienced as a passage between languages, a concentration of voices whose identity remains opaque. Some of these voices materialize into complete translation, while others provide a departure from national identity and its dominant linguistic form. In which language does one self-document when there is no mother tongue anymore?.

This home movie is not only a site for the transmission of personal history and documentation of kinship affiliations, but it is also a place for self-ethnographic practice, colliding family representation with avant-garde pursuits.

Credits

Salix Tree
B&W, Stereo
Super8mm to 2k
10 mins.
2015

Directed by Victor Arroyo

Super8mm, hand processed, re-photographed and scanned to 2k.

Sound design by Christian Olsen.
Post-production supervising by Oswaldo Toledano.

Laboratory services and 2k scan provided by Frame Discreet.

Produced with assistance by Main Film.
Centre d’artistes voué au cinéma indépendant.