Un Corrido de La Tierra
In cooperation with artist and subject Juan Carrillo-Dominguez and co-director Adrian Metoyer III, we are currently in pre-production to make a short documentary film entitled Un Corrido de la Tierra.
Logline
Un Corrido de la Tierra / A Ballad of the Land follows three generations of Mexican laborers examining how capitalism has shaped migration and the landscape in Southern California.
Synopsis
Through his lived experience as a young warehouse worker in Moreno Valley, CA, Juan traces his family's hardships from Bracero work to crossing the border in the hopes of giving their family a better life. Three generations of labor, from working in the fields to working in warehouses, is recounted as their migration is traced from a small pueblo in Zacatecas, Mexico to Long Beach and finally the Inland Empire.
The abandoned ranch town of Encarnación, once bustling from a neighboring mining economy, shows the traces of desertion as most have gone to work up North. Long Beach and later Moreno Valley become the locus of where the Carrillo family settles, along the precarious route of the supply chain—teeming with shipping ports, railroads and warehouses.
This film seeks to historicize the current labor force and migratory patterns of Mexican residents living in Southern California as it examines how the flow of capital has shaped geography, history, and political power.
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*This project has been generously funded by the California Arts Council.