MI CASA MY HOME
INTERACTIVE WEB PLATFORM
Stage: Research & Development
Acknowledgements:
Acknowledgements:
- Invitation as lecturer by Homing - The Home Migration Nexus, Trento University, 2019
- Invitation as filmmaker to the 10th Annual Conference in Political Economy: Envisioning the Economy of the Future, and the Future of Political Economy AFEP-IIPPE Conference 2019
- SeirenFilms Award, a mentorship for the transmedia development of Mi Casa My Home, DocMontevideo, 2016
- DocMontevideo Pitching Series, 2016
- Centro Atico, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Postproduction Grant, 2016
- Art Residency by Espacio-Arte, Medellin, Colombia, 2016
- HackaDoc Worshop, International Documentary Film Festival, DocsBarceloma+Medellin, 2015
SYNOPSIS
The web platform is a tool for reflection, calling attention and poetic translation of the global phenomenon of houses built with remittances and which they owners don't inhabit. It is designed to facilitate a broad and participatory conversation on the relationship between the senses of 'home' when crossed by the experience of migration.
The participatory web tool "Mi Casa My Home" is part of a documentary trasmedia trilogy by Colombian director Oscar Molina that explores the notion of home when is affected by migration. 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, “The House of Mama Icha” and “Absentees’ House”; and through a web tool as a mean to invite to reflect and discuss as well as to call attention on the global phenomenon of remittance houses.
The participatory web tool "Mi Casa My Home" is part of a documentary trasmedia trilogy by Colombian director Oscar Molina that explores the notion of home when is affected by migration. 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, “The House of Mama Icha” and “Absentees’ House”; and through a web tool as a mean to invite to reflect and discuss as well as to call attention on the global phenomenon of remittance houses.
