What is home after migration?
Mi Casa My Home is a transmedia documentary trilogy that invites us to think about the meanings of home in the current circumstances of migration and imbalance in the opportunities for reaching prosperity. This trilogy focuses on stories of migrants who, from their host countries and financed with remittances, build the houses they have always dreamed of in their countries of origin. Over time, many migrants, after investing years of savings and with a great transnational effort, repeatedly postpone their return. Many of the houses remain incomplete, others are abandoned or remain uninhabited for years: large-scale containers of that deferred dream of returning to the land of origin and a visual testimony of an illusory economic viability.
Mi Casa My Home seeks to capture the enormous breadth of this phenomenon in the world through two feature-length documentaries, La Casa de Mama Icha (in distribution) and La Casa de los ausentes (in postproduction); and through an interactive web platform (in research & development) to connect and reflect on the stories of families living with a divided sense of home.
Mi Casa My Home asks: What is the meaning of these buildings? How is the very definition of "home" altered by the experience of migration? How do these houses respond to or bear witness to the different political and economic conditions between countries? How do these remittance houses become part of the global market while their owners cannot move freely? Is it ever possible for a migrant to fulfill the dream of returning home?
Mi Casa My Home seeks to capture the enormous breadth of this phenomenon in the world through two feature-length documentaries, La Casa de Mama Icha (in distribution) and La Casa de los ausentes (in postproduction); and through an interactive web platform (in research & development) to connect and reflect on the stories of families living with a divided sense of home.
Mi Casa My Home asks: What is the meaning of these buildings? How is the very definition of "home" altered by the experience of migration? How do these houses respond to or bear witness to the different political and economic conditions between countries? How do these remittance houses become part of the global market while their owners cannot move freely? Is it ever possible for a migrant to fulfill the dream of returning home?
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