VI. Film, Graphics, Photographs

1. 13 Days
2. Art of Erica Chappuis
3. Boldrini Collection
4. Encuentro Intercontinental
5. First Intercontinental Encounter
6. A Place Called Chiapas - a film by Nettie Wild
7. Return of Bodies to El Bosque
8. Scott Sady Collection
9. The Story of Colors
10. Le Visage des Femmes du Chiapas
11. Zapatista - A film by Big Noise
12. Zapatistas Art Gallery by Latuff
13. Zapatista March Photo Gallery>

13 Days

Web page for the multi-media play about the Chiapas Uprising coproduced by the San Francisco Mime Troup, Tucson's Borderlands Theatre and the Pima Community College Drama Department. The page contains links to reviews of the play, one of which contains the following description: "A multimedia extravaganza that brings together actual television news clips, slides, taped voiceovers, music and even e-mail to the more conventional acting, dancing and elaborate moving stage sets."

The Art of Erica Chappuis

Erica Chappuis has illustrated and published as a book Subcomandante Marcos' story "The Cave of Desire". She has also illustrated his retelling of the story of Mary Read and Anne Bonney, pirates of the 18th Century. She has prepared numerous illustrations for the forthcoming collection: Conversations with Durito. These and many more illustrations of Zapatistas and Marcos stories can be found (along with many unrelated artworks) on her web page.

Boldrini Collection

An excellent collection of photographs by Massimo Boldrini of Chiapas in general, the EZLN, the Intercontinental Encuentro and of the Zapatista communities of Morelia e S.Jose.

The Story of Colors

This web page contains the entire book The Story of Colors with the original Spanish text. The on-screen color illustrations are even more vibrant than the original hard-copy reproductions. This is the book that the NEA withdrew funding for its English publication. It did that because Julia Preston of the New York Times, already notorious for her reports about the Zapatistas that reproduced and spread government propaganda, pointed out to the director of the NEA that the book came from the Zapatistas, a revolutionary group. She then published an article on the news she had made as the director, either fearful of, or a participant in, conservative backlash, withdrew already promised funding. The English version was published anyway, sold thousands of copies and can be obtained from Cincos Puntos Press in El Paso, Texas.

Zapatista

This is the home page of Big Noise film who produced the excellent movie Zapatista about the Zapatista uprising. The web page allows you to access a subpage about the film and even to view it in streaming video.

A Place Called Chiapas

This is the commercial website for Nettie Wild's film A Place Called Chiapas. It contains a description of this controversial film about the Zapatista uprising, a little historical background, information on Nettie Wild and notices of where and when the film is showing. The Mexican Solidarity Network is helping promote this film and has a website for this purpose which contains two reviews of the film from La Jornada newspaper in Mexico.

Return of Bodies to El Bosque

A collection of photographs with commentary in Italian of the return of the mutilated bodies of peasants to the pro-Zapatista community of El Bosque in June 1998.

First Intercontinental Encounter

This site, a sub page of the European Counter Network (ECN), contains many photographs of the Intercontinental Encounter in Chiapas at the end of July, 1996 as well as dozens of other photographs of other encounters, precolombian Mexico, and so on. Look under the rubric "immagini".

First Intercontinental Encounter

This German site has an English version and contains another series of full sized photos of the Intercontinental Encounter with nice audio background recording from the encounter.

Zapatistas Art Gallery by Latuff

Latuff offers a collection of images, black and white and color, along with an English translation of each Spanish sub-text. This web site was created in artistic support of the resistance movement Zapatista's National Liberation Front (or FZLN). More of his artwork can be found here and here (Note: this last link also contains a variety of other graphic art.)

Encuentro Intercontinental

One collection of photographs by Frida Hartz, many of which are extremely evocative of the people, the mud, the speeches and the political enthusiasm of the Encuentro. The page also contains a link, through her name, to a photo essay of hers "La Polvora Maya" that contains another set of photgraphs.

Zapatista March Photo Gallery

The Voz de Aztlan collection of photographs taken during the Zapatista march from Chiapas to Mexico City in March 2001 to demand consitutional recognition of indigenous rights.

Le Visage des Femmes de Chiapas

This website contains ten photographs of women in Chiapas involved in daily tasks ranging from cooking to resisting the Mexican State. It also has background information on women's struggles, the Zapatista women's revolutionary law, the ancient history of the Mayan peoples and the modern history of Zapatista struggle.