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Film Review: Two Stories about Extractivism
Latin American Perspectives ( IF 0.9 ) Pub Date : 2020-12-09 , DOI: 10.1177/0094582x20975010
Emilia Cordero Oceguera , Daniela García Grandón , Andrew R. Smolski

In Ernesto Cabellos Damián’s documentary Hija de la laguna we see an iteration of the dynamics inherent to capitalist accumulation: the struggle between the owners of the product and the people. In the penultimate scene the camera records dozens of community members walking through a valley singing “The water belongs to the people and not the miners.” They arrive at a place on the shore of Cajamarca’s Blue Lagoon whose ownership is in dispute. The protesters stand on a hilltop declaring their communal right to the property, and the director gives us a panoramic view in which we can see, as they can, the Yanacocha mine’s private security forces and the federal riot police awaiting them in the valley. Next comes a distance shot in which the community members are distributing food and talking. In contrast, the security forces and the police are shot from several meters away, generating a distance and thus locating them in the eyes of the protesters and increasing the dramatic tension between the oppressed and their oppressors. Attention is then directed to the arrival of the representatives of the Attorney General’s Office, who are trying to end the mobilization although they profess to be neutral. Next the director, in silence, foregrounds the faces of some community members to illustrate the tension, showing their anguish and determination. A medium shot shows the protagonist, Nélida Ayay, informing a local radio station of a possible police attack on the protesters. Finally, and without explanation, the police and the security forces go away. This is a story of a momentary victory against capital. The filmmaker is telling the story of a social struggle in Cajamarca, Peru, against gold extraction in the Conga lagoons by the Yanacocha mine (which is controlled by a joint venture involving the World Bank, the Peruvian company Buenaventura, and the U.S. Newmont Mining Corporation). He tells it from the experience of the activist Nélida Ayay. If Yanacocha wins, Ayay and her people will run out of water and may be displaced, with the area ending up contaminated. Tangentially, the documentary shows another mining conflict in Bolivia, where the town has already run out of water because of mining pollution (Figure 1). The documentary does a good job in giving pride of place to a woman’s story without overlooking those of the others involved. It shows how Ayay, who is studying to be a lawyer, listens to locals and explains their rights to them while connecting us to a

中文翻译:

电影评论:关于提取主义的两个故事

在 Ernesto Cabellos Damián 的纪录片 Hija de la laguna 中,我们看到了资本主义积累固有动力的迭代:产品所有者与人民之间的斗争。在倒数第二个场景中,镜头记录了数十名社区成员在山谷中行走时唱着“水属于人民,而不是矿工”的声音。他们到达了卡哈马卡蓝色泻湖岸边的一个地方,那里的所有权存在争议。抗议者站在山顶上宣布他们对该财产的公共权利,导演给了我们一个全景图,我们可以在其中尽可能地看到 Yanacocha 矿的私人安全部队和在山谷中等待他们的联邦防暴警察。接下来是远距离拍摄,社区成员正在分发食物和交谈。相比之下,安全部队和警察在几米外被射杀,产生了距离,从而将他们定位在抗议者的眼中,加剧了被压迫者与压迫者之间的戏剧性紧张。随后,注意总检察长办公室代表的到来,他们虽然声称保持中立,但仍试图结束动员。接下来,导演沉默地将一些社区成员的脸放在前面以说明紧张局势,表现出他们的痛苦和决心。中景照片显示主角 Nélida Ayay 通知当地广播电台警方可能袭击抗议者。最后,没有任何解释,警察和安全部队离开了。这是一个对抗资本一时胜利的故事。影片制作人讲述了秘鲁卡哈马卡的一场社会斗争,反对 Yanacocha 矿(该矿由世界银行、秘鲁公司 Buenaventura 和美国纽蒙特矿业公司组成的合资企业控制)在 Conga 泻湖开采黄金的故事。 )。他从活动家 Nélida Ayay 的经历中讲述了这一点。如果 Yanacocha 获胜,Ayay 和她的人民将缺水并可能流离失所,该地区最终会受到污染。切线地,该纪录片展示了玻利维亚的另一场采矿冲突,该镇因采矿污染而已经缺水(图 1)。这部纪录片很好地为女性的故事赋予了自豪感,同时又不忽视其他相关人员的故事。它展示了正在学习成为一名律师的 Ayay 如何,
更新日期:2020-12-09
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