LIFE IS A CULTURAL THREAD 2022
Directed by
Viviana M. Calderon de la Barca
OFFICIAL DUTCH DESIGN WEEK 2022 FIRST SCREENING
22/10 Natlab Eindhoven, the Netherlands
IN PERSON • Q&A
with director Viviana M. Calderon de la Barca and subjects of the film, The Feminist Needle Party and
Monica Flores M. Turasnu Owner.
#DDW22 PROGRAMME PREVIEW | LIFE IS A CULTURAL THREAD
— Dutch Design Week (@dutchdesignweek) September 12, 2022
□□ Premiering in @NatlabEindhoven, @VMCdelaBarca's film weaves stories surrounding the traditional and innovative crafts of women textile designers,weavers,entrepreneurs + activists across generations. https://t.co/rS58Ly2qdH
On the Author’s Roots
Viviana M. Calderon de la Barca is
writer and director of short film Life Is A Cultural Thread (2022),
Occupy Cultural Threads triptych installation (2021),
and short film Life Is A Journey (2019/20).
While all works pay homage to the director’s dear mixed heritage and ancestral linkages, Life Is A Cultural Thread (2022), is dedicated to her maternal legacy as the great granddaughter of Federico Calderón de la Barca Romualdi and Carmen García Vallesinos, both, offspring of Spanish and Italian immigrants to Mexico.
Like them, Viviana’s father Eastern European descent makes her also part of her current home in Europe. The Netherlands is where her marital relationship brought her from Canada. It’s in Dutch land where she has lived the most and where she feels the most at home. Her birthplace, on the other hand, is San Angel. Once a beautiful valley between two volcanoes, one snowcapped and the other of fire in Mexico City.
writer and director of short film Life Is A Cultural Thread (2022),
Occupy Cultural Threads triptych installation (2021),
and short film Life Is A Journey (2019/20).
While all works pay homage to the director’s dear mixed heritage and ancestral linkages, Life Is A Cultural Thread (2022), is dedicated to her maternal legacy as the great granddaughter of Federico Calderón de la Barca Romualdi and Carmen García Vallesinos, both, offspring of Spanish and Italian immigrants to Mexico.
Like them, Viviana’s father Eastern European descent makes her also part of her current home in Europe. The Netherlands is where her marital relationship brought her from Canada. It’s in Dutch land where she has lived the most and where she feels the most at home. Her birthplace, on the other hand, is San Angel. Once a beautiful valley between two volcanoes, one snowcapped and the other of fire in Mexico City.
Makeup artist Veronique Mari.
