'Stonebreakers' screens at the Brooklyn Film Festival on Saturday. The 70-minute film is a meditative and often eerie documentary that confronts the legacy of monuments like NYC's Columbus Circle.
Make your contribution now and help Gothamist thrive in 2023.Like so many other artists whose work was put on indefinite hold when the pandemic hit in 2020, filmmaker Valerio Ciriaci had to shelve his documentary in progress, which he’d been toiling away at for years.
on Saturday. It includes footage shot across the country, in New York City, Connecticut, Richmond, Virginia, Mount Rushmore and at the Mexican border in Arizona, where crowds of demonstrators went to battle over symbols and occasionally engage in standoffs with their conservative opponents. “That statue is saying, ‘It’s OK to murder people! To steal their land.’ That’s what he did,” said Roberto Múkaro Borrero, a kasike of the Guainía Taíno tribal community, holding a megaphone.
"There has never been a document of culture, which is not simultaneously one of barbarism,” wrote Benjamin. “Let’s talk about the massacres,” said Tilsen. “Let’s talk about the way the government illegally stole these lands. And its direct connection to the poverty our people live in today. Its direct connection to the fact that a Native person isThe film examines the controversies over Confederate statues as well as those honoring the nation’s founding fathers, but it regularly returns to Columbus statues.
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