Darkmoon
Director Thomas John
Countries Mexico, Germany
Duration 52 min
Synopsis
Darkmoon is an artistic, poetic and a bit experimental documentary film dealing with a young female Tzotzil-Maya poet (Suyul). She is a bilingual poet and writes in her mother tongue, Tzotzil, and in her second language, Spanish. Co-protagonist is a good old friend of her (Ronyk) who is a Tzotzil painter & filmmaker. He is at the same time also co-filmmaker of Darkmoon and was involved in the production process. The aim of us was, to find a poetic audio-visual language to get close to the themesof Suyul's poetry, which are 'women', the realities of her 'folk', 'darkness' and 'death'. Location is Chiapas, the southernmost state of Mexico, location of several contemporary Mayan groups and other so-called 'indigenous' societies.
Darkmoon is an artistic, poetic and a bit experimental documentary film dealing with a young female Tzotzil-Maya poet (Suyul). She is a bilingual poet and writes in her mother tongue, Tzotzil, and in her second language, Spanish. Co-protagonist is a good old friend of her (Ronyk) who is a Tzotzil painter & filmmaker. He is at the same time also co-filmmaker of Darkmoon and was involved in the production process. The aim of us was, to find a poetic audio-visual language to get close to the themesof Suyul's poetry, which are 'women', the realities of her 'folk', 'darkness' and 'death'. Location is Chiapas, the southernmost state of Mexico, location of several contemporary Mayan groups and other so-called 'indigenous' societies.