Film, 88 mins, 2016
Dignity / Dignidad is a film about strategies of recuperation in times of crisis. Recuperation, in a literal sense, means the recovery or regaining of something.
The film focuses on “La Dignidad,” a residential building in Mostoles, a suburb of Madrid. The building was constructed during the real-estate boom but never occupied after the property market collapsed following the Spanish financial crisis starting in 2008. Housing activists from Stop Desahucios (Stop Evictions) in Mostoles took over the building in June 2014, and christened it “La Dignidad.” The activists made the decision to take over the building when they realized that more and more people coming to the weekly housing assemblies were either already homeless or were about to be evicted the following week. There are fifty people, individuals, and families, currently living in “La Dignidad,” 18 are children under the ages of 10.
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In the Neighborhood Academy Michelle Teran will show for the second time her new film DIGNITY / DIGNIDAD (2016, Spanish with English subtitles) August 4 20:00-22:00 Prinzessinnenstr. 15 10969 Berlin The Neighborhood Academy in Prinzessinnengarten is a self-organized open platform for urban and rural knowledge sharing, cultural practice and activism. Link to Neighborhood Academy website
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in situ residency
installation and colloquium
La Chambre Blanche, Québec City
September 1st – 20th December, 2015
Opening event: 12th December, 2015
Conversations and exchanges on the right-to-housing and the fight against austerity.
With the participation of BAIL, Comité populaire de Saint-Jean-Baptiste, FRAPRU, Mères et Monde and Pech Sherpa.
Video Pool Media Arts Centre & Actual Contemporary present
The Age of Catastrophe
13 November – 12 December 2015
at Actual Contemporary/ 300 Ross Avenue
LA CHAMBRE BLANCHE is pleased to invite you for a talk by Canadian-Mexican artist Michelle Teran, who is currently artist-in-residence.
“Mortgaged Lives” examines the experience of rupture, through the loss of a home, within the Spanish eviction crisis.
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