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Veracruz without ship by Teresa Delgado & Jakob Kirchheim A documentary melodrama with privatizations and without lovers. A poetic walk through Veracruz, port of European exiles and Mexican oil, of melodrama and of the rhythm danzón. Since 1938 Lázaro Cárdenas government offered political asylum to thousands of Spanish republicans who were fleeing war and persecution. They arrived to the port of Veracruz, unreachable paradise for the defeated who couldn´t leave Spain. We revisit this myth of the grandparents and confront it with the present in 2014. In this year the PRI government is opening the doors to private investment of multinationals in a natural resource which Mexicans consider their own: oil. Oil plays an important role in the Gulf of Mexico and Mexican oil was nationalized by Cárdenas government in 1938.

Born in Madrid 1965 and living in Berlin since 1987. Graduated from the Free University of Berlin with a M. A. in German and Spanish Literature. She is teaching Latin American cinema, history and culture at the Humboldt University and use to collaborate with the artist Jakob Kirchheim since their first film “Die Prinzessin der zweiten Hand”/”La princesa de la segunda mano” which was shown at the Berlin Film Festival and in Imagfic Madrid (1992). She has been working in poetry and short documentary films. The best known is “Terrorsounds” in collaboration also with Jakob Kirchheim (2010) shown at the Zebra Poetryfilm Festival in Berlin, VideoBardo Buenos Aires, Bristol, Vancouver and in 2013 at the “Zentrum für Kunst und Medien “ in Karlsruhe in the exhibition “Typemotion. Type as image in motion”.