For the moment, I pass y'all more photos - soon, voices, gestures, outlines of ideas and other elements, as they emerge during the editing process.
Enjoy...
An actress, Shezenia, playing with kids in the audience, in the town of Mururata, inhabited largely by afrobolivians... after the show the youth of the town grabbed their drums and we danced for hours.
"What's it like to walk in a stranger's shoes?" asks one of Teatro Trono's plays.
The actors reconstruct a lynching, or "community justice" or "twisted justice", depending on whom you ask. despite the heavy moment, the young actors can't stop laughing during the rehearsal... always with a contagious and defiant joy.
it's no joke the lynching. here in El Alto, it's not uncommmon to see this kind of announcement on the walls: "thieves will be burned alive." truth be told, stealing images is also a serious crime here, since in traditional aymara culture there are still people that believe that to take their picture is to steal their soul. so we have tried to always be very careful, so that the camera-mic be instruments of productive collaboration, and not unilateral appropriation of others' images/voices.
the film crew, en route to revolution. we couldn't resist another opportunity with this adorably rebellious cochecito.
Getting electricity from a light post... the only form of getting lights and sound going during the tour. It was a miracle we didn't explode anything... the biggest problem we had was blacking out a church for a couple of hours... oops.
on the road...
new vistas...more photos soon...
paz a todos desde La Paz,
Mateo
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