Silvestre Pantaleón # 280
Silvestre Pantaleón
14:00, Saturday 15th June, Museum Auditorium
- Director/Anthropologist: Roberto Olivares, Jonathan D Amith
- Year of Release: 2011
- Duration: 65 mins
- Country of Production: Mexico
- Location: San Augustin Oapan, Mexico
- Ethnic Group: Nahuatl-speakers from central Guerrero
- Language: Nahuatl (English, Spanish, French, Nahuatl)
Silvestre Pantaleón lives in a Nahuatl speaking village in Guerrero, Mexico. He is one of the few who still has the traditional skills to make rope and lattice from plants. Looking for relief from pain and numbness, he visits a card reader and is told to make offerings to the dead, the hearth, the ants and the river in order to be cured. The film delicately follows Silvestre as he makes ropes to raise the money necessary for the ceremony “Levantamiento de sombra,” lifting the shadow. A study of a fading world and disappearing rituals.
Organised by the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain & Ireland (RAI) since 1985, it is an itinerant festival that moves biennially from one university host to another, in association with local community and cultural organisations.
The festival will be held from Thursday 13 June to Sunday 16 June 2013 in Edinburgh, hosted by National Museums Scotland and the STAR consortium. Scottish Training in Anthropological Research (STAR) is a collaboration between the Universities of Aberdeen, Glasgow, Edinburgh and St. Andrews. Over 60 new films will be screened alongside a conference 'New Observations' and a selection of special events and workshop about art & anthropology and the use of archival film.
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