From Chile to Canada: Media Herstories

16mins| 4K | Canada | 2022

SYNOPSIS
The story of Latin American media art herstories on unsurrendered Coast Salish land is examined in this intergenerational telling. Featuring Carmen Rodríguez, Soledad Muñoz, Gabriela Aceves-Sepúlveda, Carmen Henríquez, Casey Wei, Karen Knights, Sara Diamond, this (un)archival project revisits a historic 1987 all Chilean women media art event in Vancouver. Diasporic flows of knowledge exchange and feminist solidarities uncover the contributions of Latinx women revealing lesser known Canadian media art genealogies.

CREDITS/ TECHNICAL INFORMATION
Running time: 16.16mins
Shooting format: 4K
Featuring: Carmen Rodríguez, Soledad Muñoz, Gabriela Aceves-Sepúlveda, Carmen Henríquez, Casey Wei, Karen Knights, Sara Diamond
Direction: Sarah Shamash, Sonia Medel
Camera: Angie Rico, Sarah Shamash
Editing: Sarah Shamash
Location Sound: Emmy Saenz, Lesly Arana, Peggy Vasquez Mellado Lopez
Sound design and Mix: Inaam Haq
Music: "Highway" by Suminagashi composed by Eliz Amador Published by Oris Label,
Mastered by Valis Ortiz, In collaboration with Otono Label (C) 2020. Suminagashi Music. All rights reserved
Contributing sound art: Soledad Muñoz
Special thanks to VIVO Media Arts
This project was made possible by a Canada Council for the Arts grant and a BC Arts Council grant