Grounds

 11 minutes • 16mm • 2000

This personal documentary tells the story of the filmmaker’s great-grandmother, who during the Mexican Revolution, buried a coffee can with family treasures. The can was never found and became a lost ancestral time capsule. Drawing parallels to the past and the filmmaker’s present life in San Francisco, the film explores the scene of history and the organic texture of migratory memory.

Screening Highlights

• “The L Factor” at Exit Art, NY, 2004

• Ann Arbor Film Festival, 2001

Collections

• University of Texas

• University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

• University of Arizona, Tucson

• University of Kentucky

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-CineFestival Latino Film Festival (San Antonio, Texas)

-Women of Color Film Festival (UC-Berkeley)

-39th Ann Arbor Film Festival (Ann Arbor, Michigan)

-Mix New York

-Eclipse: Toward a Decolonizing Cinema (UC-Santa Cruz)

-25th San Francisco Int’l Lesbian and Gay Film Festival

-Society for Cinema Studies Conference (Washington, D.C.)