Come watch films with the Echo Park Film Center at Heavy Manners Library at the next screening in the Working Together series! Brick by Brick: short films building with Earth features four short films centering the labor of building bricks from–and in connection with–clay rich earth. The strenuous labor involved in working with earth when the land is colonized & privatized is foregrounded. The films document adobe & brick building techniques from Bolivia, Colombia, Mexico, and Ukraine.
The program includes:
Gambote dir. Sofía Bensadon (2021)
The Brickmakers (Chircales) dirs. Marta Rodríguez & Jorge SIlva (1972)
Clay dir. Naomi Uman (2009) (Screening on 16mm)
Building Something Out of Something dirs. Carlos Hernandez & Nicole Ucedo (2023)
TRT 84 mins.
