ART ON THE ROAD
Mexico, 2011, 8 min
Barbara Nickl
27.01.2012 22:25
A short documentary about travelling and the desire to move. It focuses on the ideas and stories of Artesanos – people who live a nomadic lifestyle, travel around Latin America and produce their own jewellery in order to fund their lives. It questions the reasons for choosing this way of life, the significance of travelling and represents their invisibility and intangibility while moving. It is a mix of Super 8, Photographs and sound.
Barbara graduated MA Visual Anthropology at University of Manchester and Munich´s University.
Director and production: Barbara Nickl
Language of dialogues: English, Spanish
Language of subtitles: English
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