{"id":32602,"date":"2019-12-08T07:09:18","date_gmt":"2019-12-08T13:09:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/?p=32602"},"modified":"2019-12-13T17:12:57","modified_gmt":"2019-12-13T23:12:57","slug":"una-ballena-en-las-montanas-del-sureste-mexicano-creadors-y-creaturas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/?p=32602","title":{"rendered":"[:es]UNA BALLENA EN LAS MONTA\u00d1AS DEL SURESTE MEXICANO (Creador@s y Creaturas)[:en]A Whale in the Mountains of Southeastern Mexico[:]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[:es]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/?attachment_id=29002\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-29002\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-29002 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_5530-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"373\" height=\"248\" srcset=\"https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_5530-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_5530-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_5530-700x466.jpg 700w, https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_5530.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 373px) 100vw, 373px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>COMISI\u00d3N SEXTA DEL EZLN.<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>M\u00c9XICO.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Diciembre del 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Al Congreso Nacional Ind\u00edgena-Concejo Ind\u00edgena de Gobierno:<br \/>\nA las personas, grupos, colectivos y organizaciones de la Sexta nacional e internacional:<br \/>\nA las Redes de Resistencia y Rebeld\u00eda:<br \/>\nA quienes son adictos al cine:<\/p>\n<p>CONSIDERANDO QUE:<\/p>\n<p>Primero y \u00fanico:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>UNA BALLENA EN LAS MONTA\u00d1AS DEL SURESTE MEXICANO.<br \/>\n<\/strong>(Creador@s y Creaturas).<\/p>\n<p>Usted no sabe c\u00f3mo es que lleg\u00f3 hasta ese lugar. S\u00ed, parece que ya se va haciendo una costumbre\u2026 \u201c<em>Usos y costumbres ciudadanos<\/em>\u201d, recuerda usted que dec\u00eda el finado SupMarcos, y recuerda tambi\u00e9n la irritaci\u00f3n que le provocaban esos comentarios sarc\u00e1sticos\u2026 bueno, no s\u00f3lo eso. La tarde deja ahora su lugar a la noche. Usted se detuvo porque vio de lejos una estrella roja de cinco puntas en lo alto de un cerro, luego una especie de aviso monumental con tantas letras que no alcanz\u00f3 a leer de qu\u00e9 se trataba. M\u00e1s all\u00e1, una silueta azulada de un caballo relinchando y unas letras grandes que, con luz, sentencian lac\u00f3nicas: \u201cTULAN KAW ZAPATISTA\u201d. En la entrada, la ni\u00f1a que le gui\u00f3 en aquel primer cine imposible y su banda de ni\u00f1as y ni\u00f1os, se le acercan. Usted duda si correr, aparentar que no les conoce o permanecer a la expectativa. Cualquier estrategia se derrumba porque la ni\u00f1a le toma de la mano y le reconviene: \u201c<em>siempre llegando tarde<\/em>\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Cruzan por una planada, como en una especie de feria de pueblo. En una suerte de ruta serpenteante, hay unas como \u201cestaciones\u201d con diferentes ingenios de luces y sonidos, disfraces de\u2026 monstruos, cirquer@s, trapecistas, alguien ense\u00f1ando artes, por all\u00e1 se escucha m\u00fasica, se baila y se canta. La gente se arremolina en su \u201cestaci\u00f3n\u201d favorita y hay risas, gritos de admiraci\u00f3n y sorpresa. Adem\u00e1s, claro, de las \u201cselfies\u201d. Como iniciando el trayecto, una gran pantalla. Usted est\u00e1 a punto de decir \u201c<em>parece un auto cinema<\/em>\u201d, pero un letrero aclara: \u201c<em>Pie Cinema. Esta noche: Cantinflas y Manuel Medel en \u00c1guila o Sol. Ma\u00f1ana: Piporro y Pedro Infante en Ah\u00ed viene Mart\u00edn Corona\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>La ni\u00f1a le conduce en esa marcha zigzagueante: delante va un extra\u00f1o ser, parecido a un gato o a un perro; a sus costados van otras ni\u00f1as y ni\u00f1os hablando todos al mismo tiempo.<\/p>\n<p>Usted trata de entender lo que dicen, pero entonces mira una gran manta con la imagen de \u00bfBoris Karloff?, maquillado como la creatura de <em>Frankestein<\/em>, con una taza en una mano y una pieza mordisqueada de pan en la otra. Las letras se\u00f1alan una verdad ancestral: \u201c<em>Nada como un cafecito y un bocadillo para volver a la vida\u201d<\/em>. M\u00e1s al fondo, en otro lado, se lee \u201c<em>Cirug\u00eda Maxilofacial. Luzca su mejor rostro y una sonrisa irresistible<\/em>\u201d y la imagen de las distintas versiones de la creatura de las secuelas y <em>precuelas<\/em> de \u201c<em>Alien, el octavo pasajero<\/em>\u201d. Usted se revisa instintivamente las mejillas y s\u00ed, se estremece.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Hay muchas luces de colores centellantes, un alargado comedor (usted alcanza a leer \u201cZAPATISTAS\u201d y \u201cBIENVENID@S\u201d), y est\u00e1 por decir que hace fr\u00edo y que no le vendr\u00eda mal un caf\u00e9 caliente y, s\u00ed, tal vez comer algo, cuando ve, en una de las paredes del comedor, otra manta con la imagen de Edward James Olmos anunciando \u201c<em>Sushi pasado por agua. Cursos de Origami. Eliminaci\u00f3n de Plagas. Corbatas de mo\u00f1o. Gaff &amp; Company<\/em>\u201d. En lo alto, como suspendida en el cielo, la imagen animada de la geisha de <em>Blade Runner<\/em>. Usted se detiene un momento tratando de adivinar c\u00f3mo es posible ese ingenio, pero la gente que va detr\u00e1s suyo le empuja.<\/p>\n<p>Casi al terminar \u201cla ruta de las estaciones\u201d, hay una mesa con una maqueta grande de lo que tal vez ser\u00e1 una construcci\u00f3n, con un letrero que reza \u201cProyecto de Teatro\u201d, y una caja como alcanc\u00eda con la aclaraci\u00f3n \u201cDonativos An\u00f3nimos\u201d. Detr\u00e1s de una tienda de artesan\u00edas, una imagen de un \u201c<em>atrapacaras<\/em>\u201d anuncia bufandas y antifaces para dormir.<\/p>\n<p>Luego un camino empedrado de luz y la silueta de una gran estrella roja, y, entre escombros aparentemente puestos a prop\u00f3sito, im\u00e1genes cambiantes de un escenario <em>dist\u00f3pico<\/em>. Bosque adentro y monta\u00f1a arriba se adivinan luces parpadeantes. S\u00ed, como si en lugar de un \u00e1rbol, los zapatistas hubieran adornado de luces la monta\u00f1a entera y los \u00e1rboles del bosque no fueran sino las ramas de ese gran pino obeso.<\/p>\n<p>Usted piensa que es mejor volver, nada tranquilizante pasa en las tierras del zapatismo\u2026 al menos no para usted. Siempre que viene, queda con una sensaci\u00f3n de inconformidad y escepticismo respecto a s\u00ed mismo. Y se necesitan muchos ba\u00f1os de cotidianeidad citadina para volver a la normalidad. As\u00ed que usted se retrasa un poco, buscando la oportunidad de regresar sin que los ni\u00f1os le miren\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Pero entonces la ve y se detiene.<\/p>\n<p>Usted se dice que lo ha visto todo, para eso est\u00e1n el internet y el ancho de banda, pero eso que ahora mira es tan il\u00f3gico que\u2026 Bueno, usted saca su celular e intenta una foto panor\u00e1mica, pero casi inmediatamente entiende que no es posible. Se necesitar\u00eda un sat\u00e9lite para tomar el conjunto, porque se aprecia que todo es parte de un rompecabezas y para armarlo hay que caminar\u2026 y cerrar los ojos.<\/p>\n<p>Pero, al volverlos a abrir, ella sigue ah\u00ed. Una gran construcci\u00f3n. Una especie de galer\u00f3n que, desafiando las leyes f\u00edsicas, se alarga hasta perderse entre los \u00e1rboles y en la piel h\u00fameda de la monta\u00f1a. Una galera cuyo espol\u00f3n de proa es una estrella roja de cinco puntas. Usted no se sorprender\u00eda si, en el costado a su vista, se abrieran ventanillas y salieran decenas, cientos, miles de remos\u2026 y dentro se encontrara, \u201c<em>escribiendo en el mar<\/em>\u201d, el manco de Lepanto. Semeja un gale\u00f3n. O un barco ballenero\u2026 No, m\u00e1s bien una ballena extraviada que, empe\u00f1ada en nadar contra la corriente y loma arriba, descansa ahora entre \u00e1rboles y gente. S\u00ed, gente, mucha. De todos los tama\u00f1os. Y de todos los colores, porque aunque parece que la mayor\u00eda tiene el rostro oculto, sus ropas son como si un caleidoscopio se moviera alrededor del gran cet\u00e1ceo, absurdo en su reposar a media monta\u00f1a, como absurdo es todo lo que ah\u00ed transcurre.<\/p>\n<p>No, no se le ocurri\u00f3 que podr\u00eda tratarse del nav\u00edo \u201c<em>Pequod<\/em>\u201d, sino de la legendaria <em>Moby Dick<\/em>, la ballena obsesi\u00f3n de <em>Ahab<\/em>, de Gregory Peck y de Herman Melville.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFestival de Cine\u201d, recuerda usted que ley\u00f3 en varios letreros. Pero no hay ninguna referencia a la pel\u00edcula de John Houston ni a la novela de Melville. Entonces usted recuerda lo que dijeron alguna vez l@s zapatistas: \u201c<em>nosotras, nosotros, hablamos para otro tiempo. Nuestra palabra se entender\u00e1 en otros calendarios y geograf\u00edas<\/em>\u201d. Aun as\u00ed usted est\u00e1 dispuesto a responder \u201c<em>Llamadme Ismael<\/em>\u201d si alguien le pregunta su nombre, pero, entonces, mira con detenimiento las 3 grandes mantas que cubren el costado; y, en la del medio, la del cuerpo bordado con lanzas y sogas, se lee:<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Tremp\u00fclka<u>l<\/u>we<\/em><\/h3>\n<p>\u201c<em>Es idioma mapuche, o<\/em> <em>mapudungun\u201d<\/em>, escucha usted que alguien le explica a otra persona. Un poco m\u00e1s arriba, otras letras se\u00f1alan: \u201c<em>\u00a1MARICHEWEU!<\/em> <em>Diez, cien, mil veces venceremos<\/em>\u201d. Y, como ratific\u00e1ndolo, a su alrededor pululan diez, cien, mil personas encapuchadas, remeros de esa parad\u00f3jica galera de <em>buenaboya<\/em>. J\u00f3venes, hombres, mujeres y <em>otroas<\/em> zapatistas. Como diciendo que cada una de sus existencias, de sus vidas, fuera un triunfo frente a un pasado que les promet\u00eda muerte y olvido.<\/p>\n<p>Aqu\u00ed, en las monta\u00f1as del Sureste Mexicano, usted se encuentra con ese grito de resistencia y rebeld\u00eda Mapuche. \u00bfPor qu\u00e9 el zapatismo saluda as\u00ed y aqu\u00ed a ese pueblo originario? \u00bfPor qu\u00e9 el empe\u00f1o en traer una historia ancestral de resistencia y rebeld\u00eda desde el m\u00e1s profundo sur del continente y venir a sembrarla en esta monta\u00f1a que, adem\u00e1s, se llama \u201c<em>Tulan Kaw<\/em>\u201d (\u201ccaballo fuerte\u201d en tojolabal y tzeltal) y hermanar as\u00ed, irracional, anacr\u00f3nicamente, dos resistencias y rebeld\u00edas con un mismo objetivo: la defensa de la madre tierra?<\/p>\n<p>Usted est\u00e1 tratando de descifrar ese rompecabezas cuando la banda infantil le empuja dentro de la panza de la ballena\u2026 ok, del auditorio. Bancas de madera, muchas, escalonadas siguiendo el perfil de la monta\u00f1a, un templete con mesas y 3 pantallas (la versi\u00f3n zapatista del 3D), bocinas, cables como tripas desordenadas.<\/p>\n<p>La ni\u00f1a le dice: \u201c<em>Aqu\u00ed nos esperas. Vamos por palomitas<\/em>\u201d. Usted trata de decirle que no vio ning\u00fan puesto de palomitas, pero la banda de infantes desaparece al salir del interior del cet\u00e1ceo\u2026 ok, del auditorio. Mientras espera, usted recorre con la mirada el interior de la construcci\u00f3n. En las bancas, seres de todo tipo. En el templete, personas que, usted supone, crean cine. Y es que hablan de cine, pero como que responden a preguntas que, al parecer, nadie les ha hecho\u2026 al menos nadie visible. O hablan para s\u00ed mismas.<\/p>\n<p>Regresan corriendo la ni\u00f1a y su banda, todos con bolsas de palomitas. La ni\u00f1a le da una bolsa mientras le aclara: \u201c<em>No le puse mucha salsa porque qu\u00e9 tal duele tu panza luego<\/em>\u201d. La entrada del grupo infantil es como una se\u00f1al, y la gente sale en tropel. Quienes est\u00e1n en el templete, suspiran con alivio. Alguien confiesa <em>\u201c\u00a1Uff! \u00a1Ahora record\u00e9 por qu\u00e9 me dediqu\u00e9 al cine!<\/em>\u201d Otro: \u201c<em>Es como una pel\u00edcula de terror mezclada con un thriller y ciencia ficci\u00f3n, y me temo que el gui\u00f3n no me depara nada bueno<\/em>\u201d. Una m\u00e1s all\u00e1: \u201c<em>Pues la verdad no supe qu\u00e9 contestarle, ella ten\u00eda demasiadas preguntas<\/em>\u201d. \u201c<em>Cierto<\/em>\u201d, dice uno m\u00e1s, \u201c<em>como estar en un tribunal, pero sin abogado defensor\u2026 y sabiendo que eres culpable<\/em>\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>La ni\u00f1a le dice al o\u00eddo: \u201c<em>Si viene el SupGaleano a buscarnos, t\u00fa le dices que aqu\u00ed hemos estado todo el tiempo, que t\u00fa trajiste palomitas de la ciudad y nos compartiste. Aunque lo veas que est\u00e1 bravo, t\u00fa firme, nada de que nada, resistencia y rebeld\u00eda<\/em>\u201d. En un altavoz se escucha: \u201c<em>Se agradecer\u00eda cualquier informaci\u00f3n sobre el paradero de un gato-perro, se le busca por robo de material estrat\u00e9gico de la comandancia general. Se supone acompa\u00f1ado de una banda de ni\u00f1as y ni\u00f1os que\u2026 ok, olviden eso de ni\u00f1as y ni\u00f1os, pero el gato-perro es inconfundible<\/em>\u201d. El susodicho, se esconde en el regazo de la ni\u00f1a y, s\u00ed, usted jurar\u00eda que tiene una sonrisa traviesa.<\/p>\n<p>Usted est\u00e1 valorando la conveniencia o no de mentirle a un <em>Subcomandante<\/em>, cuando las personas regresan, todas con olorosas bolsas de palomitas, toman su lugar y, en el templete, alguien dice: \u201c<em>\u00bfNadie va a hacer una pregunta fr\u00edvola?, digo, para volver a la normalidad y todos crean que \u00e9ste es un festival de cine como los otros<\/em>\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Vaya<\/em>\u201d, se dice usted, \u201c<em>un festival de cine donde se esperan explicaciones, razones, reflexiones. Como si en la pantalla apareciera un gran signo de interrogaci\u00f3n y todas, todos, <strong>todoas<\/strong>, esperaran que\u2026 \u00bfqu\u00e9 esperan<\/em>?\u201d. La ni\u00f1a le confiesa: \u201c<em>Estamos un poco contentas porque ya vinieron ya esas personas que hacen cine. Es que, \u00bfqu\u00e9 tal que est\u00e1n tristes, o se siente mal su coraz\u00f3n de no saber d\u00f3nde andan sus cr\u00edas? \u00bfAh, verdad? Entonces les invitamos que vienen y nos cuentan si est\u00e1n bien, o mal, o depende. Y qu\u00e9 tal que echan baile y comen palomitas y se pone contento su coraz\u00f3n<\/em>\u201d, dice la ni\u00f1a con la boca llena y las mejillas manchadas de salsa.<\/p>\n<p>Parece que hay un receso, as\u00ed que todos, incluy\u00e9ndolo a usted, salen. Para su sorpresa, ahora hay un puesto de palomitas rodante que, como un cometa lleno de luces, arrastra una larga fila de ni\u00f1as y ni\u00f1os esperando su turno. Hay otro m\u00e1s abajo. Y se adivina uno m\u00e1s lejos. Usted se forma y, ya con su bolsa de palomitas, se queda mirando esa absurda sala de cine y su inclinaci\u00f3n rebelde, desafiando la l\u00f3gica y la ley de gravedad\u2026<\/p>\n<p>La m\u00edtica ballena mapuche, <em>Mocha Dick<\/em>, navegando monta\u00f1a arriba, con toda esa gente a cuestas\u2026 \u201c<em>y, en medio de todos, un gran fantasma encapuchado, como un monte nevado en el aire<\/em>\u201d (<strong>Moby Dick. Herman Melville, 1851<\/strong>).<\/p>\n<p>Un cet\u00e1ceo irreverente como parte de un rompecabezas.<\/p>\n<p>El cine como algo m\u00e1s, mucho m\u00e1s, que una pel\u00edcula.<\/p>\n<p>Como si aqu\u00ed fuera parte de un rompecabezas m\u00e1s amplio: usted vio un gran cartel anunciando un festival de Danza, otro sobre un foro en Defensa del territorio y la madre tierra, uno m\u00e1s sobre un encuentro internacional de mujeres que luchan, otro de un cumplea\u00f1os; y letreros, muchos: los que se\u00f1alan ba\u00f1os, regaderas, internet, abarrotes, \u201cUn mundo donde quepan muchos mundos\u201d, adem\u00e1s de los de Junta de Buen Gobierno, Municipio Aut\u00f3nomo Rebelde Zapatista, Comisi\u00f3n de Informaci\u00f3n y Vigilancia\u2026 y a usted no le sorprender\u00eda topar a El\u00edas Contreras, fumando y sentado afuera de una champa sobre cuyo dintel se leer\u00eda \u201cComisi\u00f3n de Investigaci\u00f3n\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Hay muchas piezas sueltas que usted detecta. Porque usted mira a otras personas que s\u00f3lo se diferencian de las locales por un gafete que se\u00f1ala \u201cCongreso Nacional Ind\u00edgena\u201d y, claro, por no traer el rostro oculto; adem\u00e1s de \u201c<em>ciudadanos, ciudadanas y ciudadanoas<\/em>\u201d, que es como el zapatismo nombra a quienes viven o sobreviven en las ciudades.<\/p>\n<p>Y le desespera saber que hay y habr\u00e1 otras piezas m\u00e1s.<\/p>\n<p>Como si el zapatismo se empe\u00f1ara en retar a la humanidad con enigmas,\u2026 o con la silueta de un mundo, de otro mundo.<\/p>\n<p>Como si su vida de usted le importara a alguien que no conoce. \u00a0Alguien por quien tal vez usted ha hecho mucho, poco o nada, pero que le toma en cuenta.<\/p>\n<p>Como si hasta entonces entendiera que ese \u201cCaracol de Nuestra Vida\u201d le incluye a usted y a los suyos\u2026 diez, cien, mil veces.<\/p>\n<p>Y esta pieza del rompecabezas, el cine, como la vida, dentro de una ballena que remonta, herida en los costados, las monta\u00f1as del sureste mexicano\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Pero eso es imposible\u2026 \u00bfo no?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>-*-<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Con base a lo anteriormente expuesto, la Comisi\u00f3n Sexta del EZLN, invita a los hombres, mujeres, <strong><em>otroas<\/em><\/strong>, ni\u00f1os y ancianos de la Sexta, del CNI y de las redes de Resistencia y Rebeld\u00eda en todo el mundo, y, bueno, a l@s cin\u00e9fil@s que puedan y quieran, al FESTIVAL DE CINE\u2026<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>\u201cPUY TA CUXLEJALTIC\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">(\u201cCaracol de nuestra Vida\u201d),<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Cuya <strong><u>segunda<\/u><\/strong> edici\u00f3n se realizar\u00e1 en el Caracol zapatista de Tulan Kaw,<br \/>\nen las monta\u00f1as del Sureste Mexicano, del 7 al 15 de diciembre del 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Las pel\u00edculas que se exhibir\u00e1n y las actividades en el festival se dar\u00e1n a conocer p\u00fablicamente en breve en la sede del Festival.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Desde las monta\u00f1as del Sureste Mexicano.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">El SupGaleano.<br \/>\nPersiguiendo la mutaci\u00f3n m\u00e1s temible del <em>Xenoformo<\/em>: el Gato-Perro.<br \/>\n\u00bfQu\u00e9? Pues es que se rob\u00f3 mis palomitas. Y el cine sin palomitas es\u2026 \u00bfc\u00f3mo le explico?\u2026 como tacos sin salsa, como Messi sin bal\u00f3n, como burro sin mecate, como ping\u00fcino sin frac, como Sherlock sin Watson, como Donald Trump sin twitter (o viceversa)\u2026<br \/>\n\u00bfeh?\u2026 ok, \u00e9se fue <u>otro<\/u> mal ejemplo.<br \/>\nM\u00e9xico, diciembre del 2019.<\/p>\n<p>[:en]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Sixth Commission of the EZLN<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>Mexico<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>December 2019.<\/p>\n<p>To the National Indigenous Congress \u2013 Indigenous Governing Council:<br \/>\nTo the individuals, groups, collectives and organizations of the Sixth in Mexico and internationally:<br \/>\nTo the Networks of Resistance and Rebellion:<br \/>\nTo film-lovers everywhere:<\/p>\n<p>Considering, first and only, that:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>A WHALE IN THE MOUNTAINS OF SOUTHEASTERN MEXICO<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">(Creatures and their Creators)<\/p>\n<p>You have no idea how you ended up here in this place, though it seems it\u2019s becoming something of a habit\u2026 \u201c<em>The traditions and customs of cityfolk,<\/em>\u201d you remember the late SupMarcos saying. You also remember how annoying he found those sarcastic comments\u2026well, not just those comments. The afternoon has given way to evening. You stop, noticing in the distance a red, five-pointed star at the top of a mountain, with an enormous sign with so many letters that you can\u2019t make out its message. Even more distant, you can make out the blue-gray silhouette of a braying horse with huge, illuminated letters that state, laconically: \u201cTULAN KAW ZAPATISTA.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At the entrance, the girl who guided you through that first impossible movie theater and her gang of kids approach you. You\u2019re not sure whether to run, pretend not to know them, or freeze and see what happens. Any semblance of a strategy collapses because the girl takes you by the hand and chastises you: \u201c<em>Late again<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>You all cross through a wide flat space that appears to be set up like a county fair. You take a winding route through dozens of different \u201cstations,\u201d each booth with its own light-and-sound show, people dressed up as monsters, circus performers, and trapeze artists; over here there\u2019s someone teaching art, and over there you can hear music, singing and dancing. People crowd together at their favorite \u201cstation\u201d, laughing and shouting with delight and surprise, and, of course, taking selfies. At the edge of the path through the stations there\u2019s a huge screen. You\u2019re about to say, \u201c<em>Looks like a drive-in theater<\/em>,\u201d but a nearby sign reads: \u201c<em>Walk-In Theater. Tonight: Cantinflas and Manuel Medel in <\/em>\u00c1guila o Sol<a href=\"http:\/\/enlacezapatista.ezln.org.mx\/2019\/12\/09\/21065\/#_edn1\" name=\"_ednref1\">[i]<\/a><em>. Tomorrow: Piporro and Pedro Infante in <\/em>Ah\u00ed viene Mart\u00edn Corona<a href=\"http:\/\/enlacezapatista.ezln.org.mx\/2019\/12\/09\/21065\/#_edn2\" name=\"_ednref2\">[ii]<\/a><em>.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The girl leads you through the zigzagging path. Up ahead, a strange being, like a cat or a dog, is flanked on both sides by other girls and boys all talking at the same time.<\/p>\n<p>You try to make out what they\u2019re saying, but just then you see a huge banner with the face of\u2026Boris Karloff?<a href=\"http:\/\/enlacezapatista.ezln.org.mx\/2019\/12\/09\/21065\/#_edn3\" name=\"_ednref3\">[iii]<\/a> made up like the monster from <em>Frankenstein<\/em>, with a coffee cup in one hand and a half-eaten sweet bun in the other. The banner\u2019s text repeats an ancient truism: \u201c<em>Nothing like coffee and a snack to bring you back to life.\u201d<\/em> Farther on another sign reads: \u201c<em>Maxillofacial Surgery. Get your best face and an irresistible smile!<\/em>\u201d with images of the monster from <em>Alien<\/em> from the series\u2019 various prequels and sequels. You instinctively evaluate the cheeks from each version and shudder.<\/p>\n<p>Amidst lots of brightly-colored lights there is a long mess hall (you can make out signs reading \u201cZAPATISTAS\u201d and \u201cWELCOME\u201d). You\u2019re about to say that it\u2019s a bit chilly and that a hot coffee and a snack wouldn\u2019t hurt when you see on one of the walls another banner with Edward James Olmos\u2019 face announcing, \u201c<em>Soft-boiled sushi. Origami classes. Pest control. Bow ties. Gaff &amp; Company.\u201d <\/em>Higher up, as if suspended from the ceiling, there\u2019s an animated image of the geisha from <em>Blade Runner<\/em>. You pause for a moment trying to guess how such a novelty is possible, but the crowd behind you pushes you forward.<\/p>\n<p>Almost at the end of the winding route of \u201cstations,\u201d there\u2019s a table with a large model of what appears to be a future construction and a sign reading \u201cTheater Project\u201d with a collection box labeled \u201cAnonymous Donations.\u201d Behind an artisan shop nearby you see an image of a Facehugger advertising scarves and sleep eye-masks for sale.<\/p>\n<p>Before you lies a path studded with lights and the silhouette of a large red star, and amidst some rubble, apparently placed there on purpose, flash images of a dystopian backdrop. The flickering lights barely illuminate the forest around you and the mountain above. Instead of individual trees, it\u2019s as if the Zapatistas had strung the entire mountaintop with lights and the trees were merely branches on that great, hulking pine.<\/p>\n<p>You decide that it would be best to turn around; nothing normal happens in Zapatista territory\u2026 at least, not to you. Every time you\u2019ve come you\u2019re left feeling somewhat discontent with and skeptical of yourself, and it takes you several days of your regular routine in the city to feel normal again. So you take a few steps back, looking for an opportunity to turn around without the boys and girls seeing you\u2026<\/p>\n<p>But then you see it, and stop dead in your tracks.<\/p>\n<p>You tell yourself you\u2019ve seen everything \u2013 that\u2019s what the internet and its bandwidth are for \u2013 but what you\u2019re seeing now is so illogical that\u2026 Well, you grab your cell phone and try to take a panoramic photo but you realize immediately that it\u2019s impossible. You would need a satellite to capture the whole scene, because it\u2019s clear that all of it is part of a puzzle and that to put it together you\u2019d have to walk\u2026 and close your eyes.<\/p>\n<p>But when you open your eyes, it\u2019s still there. An enormous structure. A sort of huge hangar which, in seeming defiance of the laws of physics, extends back until it gets lost in the trees and the moist mountain surface. It\u2019s like a galley whose figurehead is a red, five-pointed star. You wouldn\u2019t be surprised if, in your peripheral vision, tons of small windows opened and dozens, hundreds, thousands of oars came out\u2026 and if inside, \u201c<em>writing in the sea<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/enlacezapatista.ezln.org.mx\/2019\/12\/09\/21065\/#_edn4\" name=\"_ednref4\">[iv]<\/a>,\u201d was the one-armed man of Lepanto.<a href=\"http:\/\/enlacezapatista.ezln.org.mx\/2019\/12\/09\/21065\/#_edn5\" name=\"_ednref5\">[v]<\/a> It looks like a galleon, or a whaling ship\u2026 No, more like a lost whale who, trying to swim against the current, up the mountainside, has taken a rest among the trees and people\u2014a lot of people, of all sizes and all colors. Even though most of them have their faces covered, their clothes are like a kaleidoscope moving around the great whale, absurd here in its stopover halfway up the mountain, just as everything that happens here is absurd.<\/p>\n<p>No, it didn\u2019t occur to you that this might be the \u201c<em>Pequod,<\/em>\u201d<a href=\"http:\/\/enlacezapatista.ezln.org.mx\/2019\/12\/09\/21065\/#_edn6\" name=\"_ednref6\">[vi]<\/a> but rather the legendary whale from <em>Moby Dick <\/em>with which Gregory Peck<a href=\"http:\/\/enlacezapatista.ezln.org.mx\/2019\/12\/09\/21065\/#_edn7\" name=\"_ednref7\">[vii]<\/a> and Herman Melville were obsessed.<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019ve seen several signs that say \u201cFilm Festival,\u201d but you haven\u2019t seen any references to John Huston\u2019s film or Melville\u2019s novel. Then you remember something the Zapatistas once said: \u201c<em>We are speaking for another time. Our words will be understood in other calendars and geographies.<\/em>\u201d Even so, you are willing to respond with \u201c<em>Call me Ishmael<\/em>\u201d<a href=\"http:\/\/enlacezapatista.ezln.org.mx\/2019\/12\/09\/21065\/#_edn8\" name=\"_ednref8\">[viii]<\/a> if anyone asks your name, but then you notice three large banners covering one side of the structure. On the middle banner, embroidered with images of rope and spears, you read:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>Tremp\u00fclka<u>l<\/u>we<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>That\u2019s the Mapuche language, Mapudungun<\/em>,\u201d you hear someone explain to someone else. A little above that line the banner reads \u201c<em>MARICHEWEU! Ten, one hundred, one thousand times we will win<\/em>.\u201d As if to ratify that statement, ten, one hundred, one thousand masked people swarm around you, Zapatista young people, men, women, and <em>otroas<\/em>\u2014the rowers on this paradoxical and good-spirited old galley\u2014whose very existence, whose lives, seem to point to a triumph over a past that promised them nothing but death and oblivion.<\/p>\n<p>You encounter this Mapuche cry of resistance and rebellion here in the mountains of the Mexican Southeast. Why does Zapatismo greet that originary people in this manner in these lands? Why the effort to take an ancestral history of resistance and rebellion from the continent\u2019s southern tip and plant it here in these mountains\u2014a place called \u201c<em>Tulan Kaw<\/em>\u201d (\u201cstrong horse\u201d in Tojolabal and Tzeltal)\u2014creating an irrational and anachronistic link between two resistances and rebellions with the same objective, the defense of mother earth?<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019re trying to decipher that puzzle when the kid gang pushes you into the belly of the whale\u2026okay, fine, the auditorium. Inside there are lots of wood benches arranged in tiers following the slope of the mountain, and a stage with tables, three screens (the Zapatista version of 3D), speakers, and a bunch of cables spilling out like entrails.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Wait for us here. We\u2019re going to go get some popcorn<\/em>,\u201d the little girl tells you. You start to say that you didn\u2019t see any popcorn vendors but the kid gang has disappeared, exiting the belly of the whale\u2026okay, okay, the auditorium. While you wait you look around the inside of the building. There are beings of all sorts on the benches, and on stage are people who, you assume, make films. They are talking about film as if responding to questions that, as far as you can tell, nobody has asked\u2026 at least, nobody you can see. Or maybe they\u2019re just talking to themselves.<\/p>\n<p>The little girl and her gang come running back in, all carrying bags of popcorn. The little girl gives you a bag and explains, \u201c<em>I only put a little bit of salsa on them so you wouldn\u2019t get a stomach ache<\/em>.\u201d The entrance of the kid gang serves like a signal and the rest of the crowd leaves en masse. The people on stage heave a sigh of relief. One confesses, \u201c<em>Phew! Now I remember why I chose to work in film!<\/em>\u201d Another says, \u201c<em>This is like a horror film mixed with a thriller and a science fiction flick. I fear the screenplay holds nothing good in store for me<\/em>.\u201d And another adds, \u201c<em>To be honest, I didn\u2019t know how to answer her, she just had too many questions<\/em>.\u201d \u201c<em>True<\/em>,\u201d says still another, \u201c<em>it\u2019s like being on trial but without a defense attorney\u2026 and knowing you\u2019re guilty<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The little girl whispers in your ear, \u201c<em>If SupGaleano comes looking for us, you tell him that we\u2019ve been here the whole time, that you brought the popcorn yourself from the city and shared it with us. Even if he\u2019s angry, don\u2019t give in, remain firm! Resistance and rebellion<\/em>, <em>you know<\/em>.\u201d Just then you hear over the loudspeaker: \u201c<em>Please report any information or tips on the location of one cat-dog, wanted for theft of strategic material from the office of the General Command. The suspect tends to travel in the company of a gang of kids who\u2026 okay fine, forget the kids, but the cat-dog is unmistakable<\/em>.\u201d The aforementioned, with what you could swear is a mischievous smile, burrows into the little girl\u2019s lap.<\/p>\n<p>You are weighing the wisdom of lying to a <em>Subcomandante<\/em> when everyone comes back in with fragrant bags of popcorn and takes their seats. From the stage, someone says, \u201c<em>Nobody has any frivolous questions? I mean, to get back to normalcy and make everyone believe that this is a film festival like any other<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Would you look at that<\/em>,\u201d you say to yourself, \u201c<em>a film festival where explanations, reason, and reflection are expected. As if a great big question mark had appeared on the screen and everyone (<\/em>todas, todos, todoas<em>) was expecting\u2026what are they expectin<\/em>g? The little girl responds with a confession, \u201c<em>See, the thing is, we\u2019re all kind of happy that these people who make film came here, because what if they are sad or their hearts anxious because they don\u2019t know where these things they created ended up? It\u2019s a good point, right? So we invited them to come and tell us if they are okay, or not okay, or depends. Maybe they\u2019ll even start to dance and eat popcorn and their hearts will be glad<\/em>,\u201d the little girl says with her mouth full and her cheeks stained bright with salsa.<\/p>\n<p>It seems like there\u2019s an intermission, so everyone, including you, leaves the building. To your surprise, there is now a mobile popcorn vendor outside followed by a long curving line of kids waiting their turn, like a comet with a trail of lights. It looks like there\u2019s another vendor a little ways off, and you can make out another still further away. You get in line and once you have your bag of popcorn you stare in wonder at the absurd movie theater with its rebellious inclinations, challenging all logic and the law of gravity itself\u2026<\/p>\n<p>The mythical Mapuche whale, <em>Mocha <\/em>Dick, swimming up the mountain, with all these people in its wake\u2026 \u201c<em>and mid most of them all, one\u00a0grand hooded phantom, like a\u00a0snow\u00a0hill in the air,<\/em>\u201d (<em>Moby Dick<\/em>. Herman Melville, 1851).<\/p>\n<p>The irreverent cetacean as part of the jigsaw puzzle.<\/p>\n<p>Film as something more, much more, than a movie.<\/p>\n<p>As if all this were just part of a bigger jigsaw puzzle, you see a giant poster announcing a dance festival, another about the defense of territory and mother earth, another about an international gathering of women who struggle, another about a birthday, and signs, lots of them, signaling bathrooms, showers, internet, supplies, \u201ca world where many worlds fit,\u201d the <em>Junta de Buen Gobierno<\/em> (Good Government Council), the Zapatista Autonomous Municipality in Rebellion, the Information and Vigilance Commission\u2026 at this point you wouldn\u2019t be surprised to run into El\u00edas Contreras, sitting and smoking outside a hut with \u201cInvestigation Commission\u201d inscribed over the doorway.<\/p>\n<p>You detect a lot of loose pieces. There are some people who can only be differentiated from the locals because they have a nametag that reads \u201cNational Indigenous Congress\u201d and, of course, they don\u2019t have their faces covered. There are also \u201ccitizens\u201d or \u201ccityfolk,\u201d which is what Zapatismo calls those who live or at least survive in the city. You\u2019re exasperated to realize there are and will be many more pieces. It\u2019s as if Zapatismo has set out to challenge humanity with enigmas\u2026or with the silhouette of a world, another world.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s as if your life mattered to someone you don\u2019t even know. Someone for whom you may have done much, or a little, or nothing, but who takes you into account in any case. It\u2019s as if only now do you realize that this \u201c<em>Caracol<\/em> of Our Lives\u201d includes you and yours\u2026ten, one hundred, one thousand times over.<\/p>\n<p>This piece of the puzzle, film, like life, takes place inside a whale injured on both sides, swimming upstream in the mountains of the Mexican Southeast\u2026<\/p>\n<p>But that\u2019s impossible\u2026 isn\u2019t it?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>-*-<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Given the above, the EZLN\u2019s Sixth Commission invites the men, women, <em>otroas<\/em>, children, and elders of the Sexta, the CNI, and the Networks of Resistance and Rebellion around the world, as well as those film fanatics who can and want to come, to the Film Festival:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>\u201cPUY TA CUXLEJALTIC\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">(\u201c<em>Caracol<\/em> of Our Lives\u201d)<\/p>\n<p>The second edition of which will be held in the Zapatista <em>Caracol<\/em> of Tulan Kaw, in the mountains of the Mexican Southeast, December 7-15, 2019.<\/p>\n<p>The film schedule and festival activities will be posted at the Festival.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">From the mountains of the Mexican Southeast,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">SupGaleano,<br \/>\nChasing after the most terrible mutation of Xenomorph: the Cat-Dog.<br \/>\nWhat? Well, because he stole my popcorn. And film without popcorn is like\u2026 how can I explain it?<br \/>\nLike tacos without salsa, like Messi without a ball, like a donkey without a rope, like a penguin without a tux, like Sherlock without Watson, like Donald Trump without Twitter (or vice versa)\u2026<br \/>\nwha? Okay, that was another bad example.<br \/>\nMexico, December 2019<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/enlacezapatista.ezln.org.mx\/2019\/12\/09\/21065\/#_ednref1\" name=\"_edn1\">[i]<\/a><em>\u00a0\u00a0 \u00c1guila o Sol<\/em> (1937): One of the first films starring Mexican comic Cantinflas.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/enlacezapatista.ezln.org.mx\/2019\/12\/09\/21065\/#_ednref2\" name=\"_edn2\">[ii]<\/a><em> Here Comes Martin Corona<\/em> (1952): Mexican comedy Western starring Pedro Infante.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/enlacezapatista.ezln.org.mx\/2019\/12\/09\/21065\/#_ednref3\" name=\"_edn3\">[iii]<\/a> Stage name for William Henry Pratt [1887-1969], a British actor who played Frankenstein\u2019s monster in the original 1931 film.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/enlacezapatista.ezln.org.mx\/2019\/12\/09\/21065\/#_ednref4\" name=\"_edn4\">[iv]<\/a> To row.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/enlacezapatista.ezln.org.mx\/2019\/12\/09\/21065\/#_ednref5\" name=\"_edn5\">[v]<\/a> Miguel de Cervantes, whose lost use of his left arm after a suffering a gunshot wound in the naval Battle of Lepanto against the Ottoman fleet.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/enlacezapatista.ezln.org.mx\/2019\/12\/09\/21065\/#_ednref6\" name=\"_edn6\">[vi]<\/a> The fictional 19th-century whaling ship that appears in the 1851 novel, <em>Moby Dick<\/em>.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/enlacezapatista.ezln.org.mx\/2019\/12\/09\/21065\/#_ednref7\" name=\"_edn7\">[vii]<\/a> Peck starred in John Huston\u2019s 1956 film <em>Moby Dick<\/em> as Captain Ahab.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/enlacezapatista.ezln.org.mx\/2019\/12\/09\/21065\/#_ednref8\" name=\"_edn8\">[viii]<\/a> Chapter One of <em>Moby D<\/em><em>i<\/em><em>ck<\/em> begins with the words \u00abCall me Ishmael,\u00bb as narrated by the only surviving crewmember of the\u00a0Pequod.[:]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[:es] COMISI\u00d3N SEXTA DEL EZLN. M\u00c9XICO. Diciembre del 2019. Al Congreso Nacional Ind\u00edgena-Concejo Ind\u00edgena de Gobierno: A las personas, grupos, colectivos y organizaciones de la Sexta nacional e internacional: A las Redes de Resistencia y Rebeld\u00eda: A quienes son adictos al cine: CONSIDERANDO QUE: Primero y \u00fanico: UNA BALLENA EN LAS MONTA\u00d1AS DEL SURESTE MEXICANO. 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