SYNOPSIS

Landscapes of extermination have the ability to conceal realities of inequality and violence, normalizing a politically complex reality. Enforced disappearance, punishment and kidnapping in Mexico, have transformed rural regions into depopulated and ghostly territories dominated by organized crime and institutional corruption. These are the new geographies of conflict in rural Central Mexico. 'Act One' is an ethnography of violence reflecting on a history of conflict in Central Mexico. The film posits a decolonial approach to the visual representation of violence in Mexico, transporting us beyond the realm of suffering into a space for quiet contemplation as the violent terrain of occupation enters the frame. Through a poignant and brutal testimony of a kidnapping survivor, intertwined with the pastoral rural landscapes of her captivity, 'Act One' documents geographies of conflict and disappearance at the threshold of detectability.

GÉNÉRIQUE

• Director

  Victor Arroyo

• Production

  Victor Arroyo

• Referent

  Victor Arroyo

• Sales

  Victor Arroyo