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Entretejido

Patricia Alvarez Astacio

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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.


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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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