Legacies of the Past

<p>Riven with unresolved traumas and appropriated by successive governments, the past haunts spaces in Mexican film and visual culture. These events, without consensus or a singular/unifying narrative, act like spectres haunting the present. To comprehend how they manifest, <i>Legacies of the Past</i> considers how filmmakers and visual artists have found ways of understanding these haunted spaces. <br>With case studies of films like <i>El atentado</i> (2010), <i>Flor en Otomí</i> (2012) and the photography of Dulce Pinzón, this collection analyses the audio-visual representations of several heightened events in Mexican history. The conbtributors’ explorations, imaginings and counter-imaginings bring the past to the foreground, creating new narratives and proposing new histories in order to show the significance of storytelling and narrative for a shared understanding of ourselves.</p>