Antuca & Porque quería estudiar

In 1992, the film ANTUCA celebrated its world premiere in Berlin in the presence of María Barea as part of the Blickpilotin program Mirada de Mujer, initiated by Gudula Meinzolt and organized with Katrin Schulz and Andrea Klein. The film was made in collaboration with the collective Warmi Cine y Video, the first Peruvian women’s film collective (founded in 1989), and the non-profit organization IPROFOTH (Instituto de Promoción y Formación de Trabajadoras del Hogar), dedicated to educational work for migrant and Indigenous women domestic workers. Other than the documentary PORQUE QUERÍA ESTUDIAR, ANTUCA portrays the situation of domestic workers and their labor struggles in the style of a feature film that follows the life of the eponymous protagonist. The docu-drama tells the story of Antuca, an Indigenous woman from Cajamarca who travels to Lima to work and – between her various employments – experiences processes of political organization and identity crises. While the actors here portray themselves, the accounts of the domestic workers in PORQUE QUERÍA ESTUDIAR provide documentary evidence of the field research on which ANTUCA is based. feminist elsewheres presents the films for the first time in restored versions, created in a collaborative process at the Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola in San Sebastián. (fe)

Program:
ANTUCA María Barea and Warmi Cine y Video Peru 1992 DCP Original version with English subtitles 72 min.
PORQUE QUERÍA ESTUDIAR María Barea and Warmi Cine y Video Peru 1990 DCP Original version with English subtitles 31 min.