Ways to Traverse a Territory
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A family of Indigenous Tsotsil women herds sheep on a green mountain slope in southern Mexico. The film observes them shearing and dyeing the wool and walking with the animals through the mountains. Filmmaker Gabriela Dominguez Ruvalcaba converses with the women—sometimes literally. The mime-style scenes, in which the women perform their daily activities, and the poetic eye for details, such as tufts of wool swirling like snow through the air, all contribute to a film that explores the ways humankind can shape its environment and the marks it leaves behind.