Tenochtitlan2021

Videofile HD/ spanish/ 05:10 min/ Clara Winter & Miiel Ferráez/ Germany/Mexico 2021

In the south of Mexico City a filmset has been abandoned. It was used to retell the story of the arrival of Hernán Cortés to the mexica capital of Tenochtitlan. Now this set has itself turned into a ruin and become a place where time collapses and new knots are being tied. The movie is assembled from two re-appropriations of this scenery: a contemporary poet and a witch performing a ritual summoning the past to offer the generations to come a new memory, and a Youtuber diving through the archeology of this contemporary story.