Stalina Emmanuelle Villarreal
Nepantla in parts, begins
with an epigraph: "In
America they make you
believe Spanish is a lovers
language in truth it is
a romantic kidnapping,"
said by Elisabet
Velasquez. "Intro" serpent
eye and multiple Karen
Martinez heads until
one filmmaker and actor
Martinez holds
una pintura. Lineage
unfolds a handheld vibora.
In "Auto Da Fé" Martinez
holds a mother idol La virgin
de Guadalupe and crushes
her fiction and figure. "La
Piedad en el Desierto"
shows a woman's border
crossing. A snake eye and
SIN FRONTERAS water
jug. Un nopal asalta upon a fall.
"Flor de Jaguar" embraces
a lesbian couple, la macha
con un machete, sharpening
while sitting on a bed until . . .
tenderness.
Flower of the underworld.
Martinez's Nepantla looped
with her Malinalli, a reclaiming
of Cortés's slave
by birthing in freeing
ancient smoke
entre mujeres, entre
mujeres, entre mujeres
and a contemporary cigarette.