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Enrique Ramírez
Cruzar un muro
Crossing a Wall
2012
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‘Everyone has the right to leave any country, including his own, and to return to his country.’ Based on article 13 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Enrique Ramírez constructs a filmic story with three characters waiting in an immigration office at an unspecified location. Portraying a situation where so many human aspirations converge in this day and age, as the film evolves, the story links reality and fiction, facts and introspection, in a way that is as subtle as it is metaphorical. Meanwhile, a voiceover reads excerpts from Native American Chief Seattle's 1855 letter to the President of the United States in response to the latter's offer of a land purchase. Notions such as expectation, conviction, longing, rights, journey, border and origin are articulated with great poetic and political force. Cruzar un muro was recorded in Laguna de Aculeo, in Paine, Chile, in 2012.
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original title
Cruzar un muro
registration number
R.5109
date
2012
fonds
MACBA Collection. MACBA Foundation
media
Single-channel video, colour, sound, 5 min 12 s
credits
MACBA Collection. MACBA Foundation. LOOP Barcelona Collection. Long-term loan of Screen Projects
translated title
Crossing a Wall
year of acquisition
2014
type of object
Audiovisual recording
edition number
Ed. 1/5
Copyright
© Enrique Ramírez
original title
Cruzar un muro
translated title
Crossing a Wall
registration number
R.5109
date
2012
year of acquisition
2014
fonds
MACBA Collection. MACBA Foundation
type of object
Audiovisual recording
media
Single-channel video, colour, sound, 5 min 12 s
edition number
Ed. 1/5
credits
MACBA Collection. MACBA Foundation. LOOP Barcelona Collection. Long-term loan of Screen Projects
Copyright
© Enrique Ramírez
Migration (Population)
Boundaries
Human rights
Administració pública

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