Screening | "A morir a los desiertos" by Marta Ferrer
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| Where | Mudam Auditorium |
| Related exhibition | Zoe Leonard: Al río / To the River |
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| Sprachen | Spanisch |
| Kosten | 8€ (Museum-Ticket inklusive) |
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A journey to the northern Mexican semi-desert in search of the last singers of Mexican folk music cardenche, a melancholy song genre composed and interpreted only with the voice, without musical instruments. The genre speaks of love and contempt, regret and tragedy. A tradition rooted in cotton farmers and miners, now on the verge of extinction.
Over the course of an hour and a half, the film takes the viewer to get to know and recognise daily life in the middle of the desert, focusing on the lives of some of the older members of cardenche groups, who still know the songs, sing them and teach them to younger generations.
Marta Ferrer is a director and photographer specialised in documentary language. She is currently based in Barcelona.
