“Mi Casa My Home,” is a documentary project by Colombian director Oscar Molina that explores the notion of home when is affected by migration between countries with different opportunities of access to economical and social conditions. It centers its attention on stories of migrants who, from within their host country and financed by their remittances, construct their dream homes in their country of origin. Many of these houses stand incomplete, some derelict, and many stand uninhabited for years, large-scale containers of the deferred dream of returning and a visual testament to an illusory economic viability.
“Mi Casa My Home” asks: What is the metaphoric significance of these edifices? How does one’s definition of “home” or sense of self change throughout the migration experience? In what ways do the houses respond to or withstand changing political and economic conditions? And given these ongoing conditions of flux, is it ever possible for emigres to fulfill the dream of returning?
“Mi Casa My Home” aims to capture the sheer breadth of this phenomenon with two documentaries, “Mama Icha’s House” and “Absentees’ House”; and through an interactive platform as a tool for reflection, calling attention and poetic translation of this global phenomenon of remittance houses.
“Mi Casa My Home” asks: What is the metaphoric significance of these edifices? How does one’s definition of “home” or sense of self change throughout the migration experience? In what ways do the houses respond to or withstand changing political and economic conditions? And given these ongoing conditions of flux, is it ever possible for emigres to fulfill the dream of returning?
“Mi Casa My Home” aims to capture the sheer breadth of this phenomenon with two documentaries, “Mama Icha’s House” and “Absentees’ House”; and through an interactive platform as a tool for reflection, calling attention and poetic translation of this global phenomenon of remittance houses.
WORKSHOPS AND MARKETS
- Docs Forum, International Documentary Film Festival of Mexico City –DocsMX- 2016 (Absentees’ House)
- DocMontevideo Pitching Series, 2016 (Mi Casa My Home)
- DocuLab.8, Guadalajara International Film Festival, Mexico, 2016 (Mama Icha’s House)
- Cartagena International Film Festival, Documentary Workshop, Colombia, 2016 (Mama Icha’s House)
- Spotlight on Documentaries-Independent Film Program Week, IFP, New York, 2015 (Mama Icha’s House)
- HackaDoc Worshop, International Documentary Film Festival, DocsBarceloma+Medellin, 2015 (Interactive platform)
- International Documentary Film Festival DocsBarcelona+Medellin, 2014 (Mama Icha’s House)
AWARDS & RECOGNITIONS
- Filmedellín-Grant: Estímulo al Fortalecimiento Audiovisual de Medellín, 2017 (Mama Icha's House)
- Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts. Grant to individuals 2017 (Absentee's House)
- SeirenFilms Award, a mentorship for the transmedia development of Mi Casa My Home, DocMontevideo, 2016
- Centro Atico, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Postproduction Grant, 2016 (Mi Casa My Home).
- Colombian Film Fund for Short Documentary Production, FDC-Proimagenes, 2014 (Mama Icha’s House)
ART RESIDENCIES
- Residencias Walden, marzo 2018 (Mama Icha's House)
- Art Residency by Espacio-Arte, Medellin, Colombia, 2016 (Mi Casa My Home)
- Art Residency in Mexico given by the Ministerio de Cultura of Colombia and the Fondo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes de México (FONCA), 2013, (Absentees’ House)
