Cuates de Australia is the chronicle of a catastrophe. It is the name of an ejido in the north of Mexico, the families of the place cyclically face the rigor of the summer and only resist by a diffuse tradition, whose roots are lost in the time. The natural disaster causes others: poverty, disease and migration. Every year they gather their things and leave the village waiting for the rains to return. When recording the conditions of life, Everardo González chronicles an
anticipated but inevitable catastrophe. It uses a contemplative and static style that testifies to
misfortune and resignation. This work analyzes the discursive mechanisms of the film to put into
context the conditions of life of this community, and to propose a political vision of the subject.
Likewise, it raises the analysis of the complete body of the work of the filmmaker, from which
this tape can be considered as a synthesis of his rhetorical searches.
Keywords:
Documental, migración, catástrofe, cine contemplativo, sequía
Author Biography
Francisco Javier Ramírez Miranda, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Ramírez Miranda, F. J. (2017). Approaching the real in Everardo González’s cinema. Comunicación Y Medios, (36), 33–42. https://doi.org/10.5354/0719-1529.2017.45757
