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Entretejido

Price: $295.00
Filmmaker Name: Patricia Alvarez Astacio
Film Length: 34 min
Film Year: 2015
Duration: 21-45 min
Decade: 2010s
Language: in Spanish, Quechua
Subtitle Language: with English subtitles
Color: color
Region: South America
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ABOUT

Peruvian alpaca wool has held an important place in the rich textile traditions of Andean highland communities for generations. Among today's cosmopolitan elite, the wool has attained the status of luxury item, enhanced by its manufacture at the hands of indigenous artisans and herders. From remote villages to the capital's fashion runways, the wool bridges Peru's rural, indigenous poor and the urban and global fashion world. This supply chain has become a site of development efforts to alleviate poverty and foster social inclusion within Peru’s high-fashion worlds.

Entretejido is an observational-ethnographic film that weaves together the different sites and communities involved in making alpaca wool fashions. Varying representations of indigeneity emerge out of these encounters, which both challenge and reproduce historically-rooted racism.

The film offers an immersive experience of the textures that constitute this supply chain from animal to runway. More than just a sensory experience, however, viewers are confronted with the ways in which everyday items such as clothing are entangled in the racial politics and contested histories of the nation.



SELECTED SCREENINGS & AWARDS
Golden Remi Award, Best Culture and Ethnicity Short Documentary, Houston International Film Festival, 2017
Honorable Mention – Best Graduate Student Film, Society for Visual Anthropology Film Festival, 2016
Taiwan International Ethnographic Film Festival, 2017
La Paz International Film Festival, La Paz, Bolivia, 2017
Ethnografilm Festival, Paris, 2017

CREDITS & INFO

SCREENINGS & AWARDS
Taiwan International Ethnographic Film Festival, Taiwan, 2017
La Paz International Film Festival, La Paz, Bolivia, 2017
Queens Museum, Environmental Remediations, New York, 2017
Ethnografilm Festival, Paris, France, 2017
Festival Internacional de Cine del Cono Sur, Valparaiso, Chile, 2017
Royal Anthropological Institute Film Festival, 2017
Ethnographic Film Screening, Louisiana State University, cosponsored by the Department of Geography & Anthropology, Women and Gender Studies, and International Studies, 2017
Brandeis University, Department of Anthropology, Massachusetts, 2017
Vernacular Textiles in the Global Context, Savanah Museum of Contemporary Art and Design, Savanah, Georgia 2016
Emergent Ecologies: NYC Emergence, Kilroy Metal Ceiling Gallery and Princeton Environmental Institute 
Global Interweavings, Center for Documentary Arts Research, University of California, Santa Cruz, 2016
Visible Evidence Conference, Boseman, Montana 2016
International Seminar: Practices and New Perspectives in Latin American and Peruvian Documentary Cinema, Anthropology Department, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Peru, 2016
Havana International Film Festival (World Premiere), Havana, Cuba 2015



Entretejido

Director
Patricia Alvarez Astacio

Producer
Christopher Newman & Patricia Alvarez Astacio

Recording
Patricia Alvarez Astacio & Christopher Newman

Editing
Christopher Newman

Additional Editing
Patricia Alvarez Astacio

Participants
Artisans of the Workshop José María Escrivá, Naty Muñoz, Alpacas, CITE Textil Camélidos Huancavelica, Comunidades Alpaqueras Huancavelica, Organizers Exhibe Peru Runway

Re-Recording Mixer
Matt Wood

Additional Knitting Sounds
Emilie Dionne, Megan Moodie

Advisors
Irene Lusztig, Matthew Wolf-Meyer, Lisa Rofel, Mark Anderson

Graphic Design
Mrinali Alvarez, Victor Dávila

Special Thanks 
B Ruby Rich, Beta Local Pin-Up Works in Progress, Elaine Gan, Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa, Caitlin Manchester, Alex Johnston, Kit Rutter, Holly Johnson, Rebecca Ora, Stefanie Graeter, Juan Carlos Dávila, Arturo “Chico” Delgado Pereira, Midiam Astacio, Juan Alvarez, Mrinalini Maldonado, Patricia Newman, Eric Newman, Keenan Newman, Sara Newman, Dana Shaw, Caroline Gil, Abdiel Segarra, Joel Rodríguez, Rafael Vazquez-Concepción, Pierre Du Plessis, Filippo Bertoni, Ruth Goldstein, Xóchitl Chávez, Adele Fournet, Felipe Wurst, María Gracía Rodríguez, Mariella Stuart Pando, Programa Antropología Visual Pontificia Universidad Católica del Peru, Ayni Arts, Promperu Cusco, Alonso Quinteros, Harumi Momota, Mozhdeh Matin, Pía Vanesa Ojeda, Diego Colán, Adam French, Sara French, Mitsuo Maruyama, The City of Huancavelica

Produced in Association with 
The Graduate Program in Anthropology & The Film and Digital Media Program, University of California, Santa Cruz 

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