Rosa Claudia Lora Krstulovic is an ethnologist, documentary filmmaker and dancer. She researches Afro-diasporic dances in Latin America, focusing for several years on the study of the dances of devils and round dances. Her areas of interest are memory, cultural transmission, documentary and heritage. She has made ethnographic documentaries, as well as anthropological research for independent documentaries and documentary series of the inah. Currently, she directs the Afrodescendencias Arts Festival and is a post-doctoral researcher at ciesas-cdmx with the theme "Collaborative strategies for the continuity of the Afro-Mexican dances of the Costa Chica".

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Image, Memory and Representation

  • Laura Machuca Gallegos
  • Nahayeilli Juárez Huet
  • Rosa Claudia Lora Krstulovic

In this issue of Encartes we present a selection of the most recent contributions of the Audiovisual Research Network (Red de Investigaciones Audiovisuales (riav) of the ciesasThe work of the Foundation has also been contributed by researchers who have been linked to it through various collaboration programs and projects, and from different latitudes and fields of action. Some of these contributions are the result of years of research, while others are part of projects currently under development.

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The Documentary as Witness: Dance Memories in the Costa Chica (part 1)

  • Rosa Claudia Lora Krstulovic

The ethnographic documentary has been one of the ways of recording and showing the diverse Afro-Mexican dances of the Costa Chica, the article argues that this audiovisual genre can also be used as a way of investigating dance memory. The text makes a first analysis of the documentaries produced on the dances of this region and presents part of the process of making the documentary feature film El Quizá, donde la memoria danza, directed by the author, whose primary interest is to contribute to the collective memories of a people.