EL PUEBLO DE LOS ÁNGELES EN CUARENTENA

2021

6k digital video, 10 mins, 2021. English.

On October 24, 1871, a group of citizens began killing Chinese in the neighborhood of El Pueblo de los ‘Angeles. Motivated by the death of a white man, a mob of Angelinos attacked, robbed and massacred between 17 and 20 Chinese immigrants. Five blocks from the plaque of this event there is a monument, written in the sidewalk, of the assaults by the FBI, against Japanese Americans. Above the sidewalk monument are posters, begging to stop the attacks against Asian Americans.

Shot on July 1, 2021