The Market
ABOUT
In a distant future where a catastrophe poisoned all soil and corporations produce tasteless food in labs; a mysterious Archive opens the door to a sumptuous past. Through post-apocalyptic, science fiction allegory, The Market explores the values attached to “local food” and consumption. Tracing the relationships between customers, farmers and their produce at a market in a gentrified neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York.
Claudia Zamora-Valencia makes visual work that investigates inequality, consumption, and labor. Trained as a cultural anthropologist and filmmaker, she uses methods and techniques from both fields to explore how social processes, power structures, and the act of documentation intertwine in daily life. She is also an educator and organizer that works with immigrant workers and is currently pursuing a PhD in anthropology. Her research has been published in academic journals, and her personal and collaborative films have screened at Ambulante Film Festival, American Anthropologist Association (AAA), Camden International Film Festival, DOC NYC, Latin American Studies Association Film Festival (LASA), Original Thinkers, Other Cinema, Single Frame, UnionDocs, and Workers Unite Film Festival. Claudia is a member of Meerkat Media Collective. She was born and raised in Oaxaca, Mexico, and lives in Brooklyn, New York.