Tomorrow – Hispanic Heritage Month Film Festival: Yvy Maraey
Join us September 17th at 5:00 p.m. for a screening of Yvy Maraey in the College of Liberal Arts, room 1201. There will be English and Spanish subtitles.
Yvy Maraey: Land Without Evil (2014) is a Bolivian film blending documentary, fiction, and performance to offer a powerful meditation on identity, representation, and intercultural encounter. Director Juan Carlos Valdivia embarks on a journey through southeastern Bolivia with a Guaraní guide, seeking not only an indigenous community but also an alternative way of seeing, listening, and understanding the world. Along the way, the film questions cinema’s role in representing the “Other” and exposes the implicit hierarchies between observer and observed. More than a physical location, the “Land Without Evil” is a spiritual state rooted in Guaraní cosmology.
This film is especially relevant for students interested in critically exploring colonialism (especially visual colonialism), otherness, intercultural respect, and the place of Indigenous knowledge in the modern world. Its ethical and aesthetic approach challenges not only Latin America, but our own ways of storytelling, seeing, and coexisting in diverse societies.
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This post was written by Batchelor, Melanie E.