Cumbia + Diaspora: FILM + TALK - "I'm No Longer Here" Film Screening 🎬
Schedule
Mon Oct 07 2024 at 05:30 pm
UTC+10:00Location
Haydon Allen Lecture Theatre, ANU | Canberra, CT
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Join us for a screening of the award-winning film 'I'm No Longer Here'! Introduced by DJ and Academic DJ Moses Iten 🎶REGISTER @ https://bit.ly/cumbia_anu
"Ya no estoy aquí" (I'm No Longer Here) is set in Monterrey, Mexico, as a young street gang spends their days dancing to slowed-down cumbia and attending parties. After a mix-up with a local cartel, their leader is forced to migrate to the U.S. but quickly longs to return home.
https://www.motionpictures.org/2021/04/why-director-fernando-frias-de-la-parras-stunning-im-no-longer-here-is-a-must-see/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4323594/
The film will be introduced by DJ, Academic and researcher Moses Iten who will use his research to place the film in a wider cultural context of the cumbia musical diaspora.
⏰ 6:30pm - 9:30pm
📅 7th of October (Monday Week 10)
📍 Haydon-Allen Lecture Theatre, Australian National University
MOSES ITEN: https://digital-ethnography.com/people/moses-iten/
Moses Iten is a PhD candidate in the School of Media & Communication at RMIT in Melbourne, Australia. Researcher of Digital Cumbia music through fieldwork in Berlin, Buenos Aires, Bogota, several Mexican cities, and online.
Has 15+ years practice as a DJ/music producer, and with his Cumbia Cosmonauts project has toured every continent. Co-founder of the Cumbia Massive DJ collective. Award-winning producer of radio documentaries. Assisted in translation of the oral history book ‘Ojos Suaves/Soft Eyes: Sound System Cumbia from Mexico to the World’ by Mirjam Wirz. Holds a Master of Community Cultural Development (University of Melbourne), and a BA in Communication (Journalism) & International Studies (Mexico) (University of Technology, Sydney).
This event is brought to you by ANU Latin America Week ❤
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