Country: USA
Year: 2011
Duration: 26'
Evocations, stories, observations of the landscape are fragments that depict the meaning of the mountainous area between Colorado and New Mexico. From the battle between the Comanche chief Cuerno Verde and the Spanish colonizers to the murder of English colonists by the Espinosa brothers, who were inspired by the Virgin Mary at the onset of the war between Mexico and the United States. From an interview with an anarchist who has chosen the nomadic life of a hunter-gatherer to a study of the architectural counterculture as evidence of the new theories of living the countryside. “Sangre de Cristo is the result of research, travel and observation through highway towns, historical societies, present and former communes, roadside attractions, and most of all, the mountains themselves. I was also drawn to the way the built environment works to reveal so much about the builders. The landscape dominates the region and the film, which nevertheless tries to address the complexity of human stories by cycling through documentary styles and strategies, including performance and re-creation, in an attempt to grapple with the constructed nature of historical representation.”
Biography
film director
Marcy Saude
Marcy Saude (USA) has directed films and videos involving subjects such as marginal histories, the landscape, counterculture, and language. She is interested in DIY aesthetics (do it yourself), in appropriation, homesteading, the relationship between the natural and built environments and politics, expanded notions of non-fiction, and folk magic. She recently completed an MFA from the University of Colorado at Boulder and currently lives in Los Angeles.
FILMOGRAFIA
filmografia/filmography
Marsh Film, 1,020 Nautical Miles, Mexico, Six Hours (cm, 2000-2003), Murder Capital (cm, 2007), Chickenshack Village (cm, 2009), This Kind of Town (cm, 2010), George Van Tassel, (mm, 2010), Exorcism of Metaphor (cm, 2010), The Sower Arepo as Works a Wheel (cm, 2010), The Counter (cm, 2010), Sangre de Cristo (cm, doc. 2011).
Cast
& Credits
regia, soggetto/director, story
Marcy Saude
fotografia/cinematography
Eric Coombs, Dawn Hollison
montaggio/film editing
Marcy Saude
costumi/costume design
Laura Shill
suono/sound
Sarah Jane Biagini, Nicholas Seivert, Mark Toscano
interpreti/cast
Victor Jendras, Daniel Cervantes, Alex Luna, Juliet Houghland, Dreux Moreland, Kate Lindas, Ben Morea (voce narrante/Narrator)
produttore/producer
Marcy Saude
vendita all’estero/world sales
Marcy Saude
