Short film
Meta Mayan
1981 · 20 min
A quiet, hypnotic gaze at daily life and landscape, slowed and fragmented, with distant news voices unsettling the calm.
- Directed by
- Edin Velez
- Genres
- Documentary
- Overview
- Filmed in the Guatemalan Highlands during a 1980 journey, Edín Vélez’s experimental video essay offers a lyrical portrait of Mayan life. Avoiding conventional narration or ethnographic analysis, the film observes gestures, landscapes, and daily rituals through slow motion and expressive camera techniques, while American news broadcasts evoke the political conflict surrounding the community, creating a meditation on cultural resilience in a changing world.
- How it feels
- Slow-burning and demanding.
- About
- Identity, survival, war, memory
- Content
- No violence, gore, sexual content or swearing.
- Note
- Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown
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- Directed by
- Edin Velez
- Genres
- Documentary