Meta Mayan

Name: Meta Mayan
Genre: Documentary
Released: 1981
Duration: 20 min

1981 · 20 min

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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.

Crew

Director Edin Velez
Director of Photography Edin Velez

Crew

Director — Edin Velez
Director of Photography — Edin Velez

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