Join co-directors Tomas van Houtryve and Mathilde Damoisel for the avant-premiere screening of the documentary film “FAR WEST – The Hidden History” on November 24 at 8 PM at Grand Action Cinema in Paris. A conversation with the filmmakers will follow the screening. Click here for more information.
About the film:
Photographer Tomas van Houtryve confronts America’s collective amnesia and reveals the hidden legacy of the Far West. At a time when the US has reinforced a wall that isolates it from Latin America, the photographer retraces another border, the one that existed before 1848, when the US military invaded and occupied the northern Mexican territories that are known today as the states of Texas, California, Colorado, Utah, Arizona, and New Mexico. He meets and photographs the descendants of families that have lived in these lands since long before the American conquest: indigenous, black and mestizo families that never crossed the border – the border crossed them. Rendered strangers in their own land, they push back on the founding myths of the American Frontier and contribute their own overlooked stories to our common history.
