IDFA Bertha Fund 2010
The Night Watchman
El Velador
Natalia Almada
Mexico, United States
The Night Watchman is a portrait of a cemetery in the drug heartland of México. Since the war on drugs began in 2007, the cemetery has doubled in size and the mausoleums have doubled in height creating a skyline that looks like a fantastical surrealist city more than a resting place for the deceased. Here, the lives of the cemetery workers and families of the victims, guilty and innocent, intersect in the shadow of this bloody conflict that has claimed over 22,000 lives.
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Tita Productions
Tita Productions