How do grassroots cartonera publishers work together across national, cultural and linguistic barriers? How do they break down walls of stigma and exclusion? What impact has their work had in Latin America over the last two decades, especially in relation to vulnerable communities affected disproportionately by violence, poverty and exclusion? What are they working on right now, and how are they effecting social change in the present? This new documentary by Isadora Brant supplements the previous Cartoneras film by highlighting some of the outcomes of the Cartonera Publishing project in collaboration with cartoneras from Argentina, Brazil, Mexico and Paraguay. Do watch, share, and join us in the cartonera movement! ¿Cómo trabajan juntas las editoriales cartoneras para romper fronteras nacionales, culturales y lingüísticas? ¿Cómo combaten el estigma y la exclusión? ¿Qué impacto ha tenido su trabajo en América Latina en las últimas dos décadas, especialmente en relación con comunidades vulnerables afectadas de manera desproporcionada por la exclusión, la violencia, y la pobreza? ¿En qué están trabajando ahora y cómo están produciendo cambio social en el presente? Este nuevo documental de Isadora Brant complementa la película anterior (Cartoneras) al resaltar algunos de los resultados del proyecto Cartonera Publishing en colaboración con cartoneras de Argentina, Brasil, México y Paraguay. ¡Ve nuestro documental, compártelo y súmate al movimiento cartonero!
Cartoneras es un documental de Isadora Brant que ahonda en las realidades urbanas de América Latina y el movimiento editorial cartonero que surgió de estas en el siglo XXI. Reflexionando sobre los diferentes contextos que impulsaron las actividades cartoneras, como la crisis económica argentina en 2001, la escena artística independiente y los movimientos que se formaron alrededor de los recicladores, la narrativa de la película se desarrolla a través de conversaciones con importantes actores del mundo cartonero.
“Cartoneras” permeia as realidades urbanas de Argentina e Brasil e se debruça sobre a história e a produção dos livros cartoneros. A partir de contextos diversos, como a crise econômica em Argentina nos anos 2000, a cena de artistas independentes, e movimentos surgidos a partir catadores de papelão, o filme desenvolve sua narrativa através de conversas e depoimentos de importantes atores do meio cartonero.
Cartoneras is a documentary by Isadora Brant that grapples with Latin America’s urban realities, and the cardboard publishing movement that has emerged from these in the 21st century. Reflecting on the different contexts that propelled this form of community publishing, like Argentina’s 2001 economic crisis, the independent art scene, and the movements which formed around waste-pickers, the film’s narrative is developed through conversations with important actors from the cartonera world.
Cartonera is a social, political and artistic publishing movement that began in Argentina in 2003 and has since spread to countries throughout Latin America and, more recently, to Europe and Africa. In this video, Maria Aparecida Dias da Costa of Dulcinéia Catadora in São Paulo, Brazil, shows us how to make a cartonera book from scratch.
This short documentary introduces the Cartonera Publishing project and accompanies a cartonera book-making workshop led by local teacher and independent publisher Oscar Edgar López and anthropologist Patrick O’Hare in a village in rural Mexico (San José del Carmen, Zacatecas).
In this short clip, the school teacher and alternative publisher Oscar Edgar López from Zacatecas, Mexico, shows us how to make books using recycled cardboard for covers.
In this short clip, the ‘cardboard publishers’ Dany Hurpin and Nayeli Sanchez from Cuernavaca, Mexico, show us how to make books using recycled cardboard for covers.
In this short clip, the ‘cardboard publishers’ Dany Hurpin and Nayeli Sanchez from Cuernavaca, Mexico, show us how to make books using recycled cardboard for covers.
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