Melting Snow is a short archival documentary exploring the coloniality of Puerto Rico’s labor through the symbol of water. The documentary centers around the 1952 event during which the mayor of San Juan, Felisa Rincón de Gautier, partnered with Eastern Airlines to transport two tons of snow from the United States to Puerto Rico. The snow was a gift, meant to delight Puerto Ricans with a white, American Christmas. However, as the spectacle unfolds, a lopsided transaction is revealed: planes brought a fundamentally capitalistic experience of instant gratification in the form of snow; these planes then returned to the U.S. transporting Puerto Rican cheap labor to live in what has come to be known as el barrio. As the snow melts, we begin to understand Puerto Rico’s colonial predicament condensed in this empty gift. Water tracks the diaspora to the mainland, taking on various forms as it completes its natural hydrologic cycle, a visual illustration of colonialism backwards and forwards in time. We travel from the fading mirage of melting snow to an approaching hurricane Maria, washing away the fiction of America as a paternalistic colonial power.

Melting Snow

Lost Year

Natividad, Aldwin, y Alberto, residentes de la comunidad Miramar en Guayama Puerto Rico, una de las comunidades principalmente afectadas por la carbonera Applied Energy Systems (AES), narran sus experiencias de lucha cotidiana ante la quema de carbón mineral, y el uso y depósito de cenizas tóxicas cerca de sus hogares.// Natividad, Aldwin and Alberto, residents of the Miramar community in Guayama, Puerto Rico, one of the communities mainly affected by the Applied Energy Systems (AES) coal mine, narrate their daily struggles against the burning of mineral coal, and the use and deposit of toxic ash nearby from their homes.

Chimenea de muerte (Chimney of death)

“Aguas Negras” (“Black Waters”) is a documentary about the Cuautitlán River that runs through the State of Mexico. The film examines the passage of time and the pollution of the river by focusing on conversations with multiple generations of women that have grown up on its banks.

Aguas Negras (Black Waters)

El Mundo Entero

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