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Obsolescence
A countless number of cameras and televisions in need of repair go through Miguel and David’s repair shops every day, with increasingly more complicated work needed. Following the path of these objects, we get to know these characters’ daily routine, whose life story evolve just as that of the things they’ve been repairing for decades. Objects that go unused and go from hand to hand every day, conquered by a diverse number of trades that give them a new value to what is no longer usable for many people; until finally reaching a place where only fragments of each camera and television have their last chance.
Awards
Jury Mention. ACAMPADOC, La Villa de los Santos, Panama, 2015; Jury Mention. Visual Intimate Lens Ethnographic Film Festival. Caserta, Italy, 2016.
Hugo Chávez Carvajal
Born in 1985 in Mexico. Studied ethnology at the National School of Anthopology (ENAH). Has a Master’s Degree in Visual Anthropology and Anthropological Documentary at FLACSO-Ecuador. He is a member of “Colectivo Etnoscopio” (Ethnoscope Collective), an organization dedicated to the promotion of visual anthropology in Mexico. In 2007, he filmed the short documentary Duels, and in 2008 Eye Wiper (winner at the Festival Corto Cinema 2009). He is associate producer and co-editor of the documentary Out of Focus (2013, winner at Shorts México 2014 and at the 5th Festival do Filme Etnográfico do Recife, 2013) and co-editor of the short documentary Victor Photo Studio (2014). Obsolescence is his latest work made with the support of the National Fund for Culture and the Arts (FONCA).
Filmography
2015 – Obsolescence
2008 – Eye Wiper
2007 – Duels