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The Kelleys / Mexican Dream
Thursday, July 9th, 7:30pm
The Kelleys
2005, Jon Wetterau, 24 mins.
The Kelleys is a story about loneliness and family in rapidly gentrifying New York. An old woman and her middle-aged alchoholic son share a rent controlled apartment for half a century. He hardly works, rationalizing that he has to care for his mother. She does not really understand the way things in the neighborhood are changing or what is the matter with her son. He does indeed help take care of her, and she needs someone around the house but there is a paradox in that he can barely take care of himself, so the mother and son still have a tight bond despite its inherent dysfunctionality.
Mexican Dream/Sueño Méxicano
2014, Rogelio Alex Ruiz Euler and/y Jon Wetterau, 54 mins.
English and Spanish. Subtitled in English.
Español y inglés. Subtitulado en español.
This documentary is about indigenous Mixtec immigrants from one pueblo in southern Mexico who go to a small town in Minnesota to work in the meatpacking factories and slaughterhouses of an iconic American company. The effects of migration on the old community there and the assimilation of the new, along with the effects on families back home, are seen through three families across both sides of the border. The film examines labor, social alienation, poverty, community dissolution, dispels myths about undocumented immigrants and shows how they are manipulated by deliberate neglect of immigration policy by both our governments and big business.
Este documental es sobre inmigrantes indígenas Mixtecos de un remoto pueblo en la sierra de Oaxaca, que van a un pequeño pueblo en Minnesota, E.E.U.U., para trabajar en una planta procesadora de carne icónica para la cultura pop Americana. La gente de este pequeño pueblo en Oaxaca compone la mayoría de la comunidad migrante en Austin, donde coexiste incómodamente junto a los residentes orginarios blancos. El documental sigue a tres familias en ambos países, examinando cómo la migración produce alienación cultural en Minnesota y disolución familiar en la Mixteca. El film también explora el mito de que los migrantes indocumentados no pagan sus impuestos en E.U.A., e ilustra cómo la migración ilegal es un juego más amplio entre consumidores, grandes negocios y políticos.
Q&A with directors Jon Wetterau and Rogelio Alex Ruiz Euler.
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LocationMaysles Cinema (View)
343 Lenox Ave.
New York City, NY 10027
United States
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