A God's Shadow

Running time: 19’33’’

Chon, a member of the Native Mexican Wirrárika community, tells the story of his cousin Faustino, son of the shaman of an indigenous settlement in the mountains of Nayarit called La Mora. In the 1980s Faustino had proclaimed himself to be god and the community‘s spiritual leader. Together with an armed group he menaced and terrorized neighbouring villages. When Chon witnessed his cousin kill members of their own community, he escaped La Mora and reported the incidents to the police of the larger village nearby, Santa María del Oro.

Authors:

  • Bernhard Hetzenauer

    Bernhard Hetzenauer was born in Innsbruck, Austria. He is a writer, film director and producer. He graduated from the University of Applied Arts in Vienna and the University of Fine Arts Hamburg HFBK, where he obtained an MFA in Film. He also studied
    documentary film in Buenos Aires and Gestalt therapy in Quito, Ecuador. His films have been shown in 31 countries. For his work he received various awards and scholarships. His book “Das Innen im Außen” (The Inside on the Outside), a philosophical psychoanalytical essay on the gaze in Lacan and in Béla Tarr‘s cinema, was published by Alexander Verlag Berlin and Cineteca Nacional/UNAM Mexico City.

    Filmography 
    2017 La sombra de un dios / A God's Shadow
    2017 Faces of Athens
    2013 El Buen Vivir: Shairy Quimbo
    2013 Und in der Mitte der Erde war Feuer  

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