TITIXE
A mourning tree, dancing sprouts, ghosts, stories and forgotten seeds. This is a Mexican family’s very last attempt to cultivate their land.
DOCUMENTARY / MÉXICO / 62' / 2018 / DCP - 5.1
The last peasant of a family has died and with him, all wisdom to till the soil has been lost. Without experience, his daughter and granddaughter will attempt a last traditional harvest to try to convince Grandma, the widow of the peasant, to keep their plot of land. Together they will uncover the leftovers (locally known as the titixe) of this man and his world: a mourning tree, dancing sprouts, the language of clouds, ghosts, stories and the endless menace of losing the crops to a tempest. This is an intimate mosaic of the last harvest of a Mexican family, in a country that has forsaken its rural origins.
Directed, photographed, edited and produced by Tania Hernández Velasco
With Yolanda Velasco, Concepción Juárez, Valentín Velasco, Tío Abel Velasco, Abel Velasco
Co-producer: Rosa Galguera Ortega
Executive producers: Nael Gharzeddine, Ivan Lowenberg
Sound design & direct sound: Mariana Rodríguez Alcocer
Co-editing: Eduardo Palenque
Original music: Jorge Bolado
Additional music: Mario Bringas
Sound mix: Manuel Aguilar
Music supervisor: Fernando Heftye
Graphic Design: Juan Arturo García
Poster illustration: Dulce Ayala
SELECTED PRESS (SPANISH): 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5
SELECTED PRESS (ENGLISH): 1 / 2 / 3
POSTER: HI-RES / LOW-RES
STILLS: 1 / 2 /3 / 4
DIRECTOR'S PORTRAIT: HERE
EXHIBITIONS IN FESTIVALS: HERE