Documentary "The Avocado Legacy"
2023
from the Conflict Avocados project 2023
- Medium
- colour digital video, sound
- Measurements
- TBC min TBC sec
- Place/s of Execution
- London, England
- Department
- Contemporary Design and Architecture
- Credit Line
- Commissioned by the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne Purchased with funds donated by The Andrew and Geraldine Buxton Foundation, 2023
© Fernando Laposse - Gallery location
- Level 3, NGV International
- About this work
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The Avocado Legacy is a documentary film, produced for Conflict avocados recording firsthand accounts of the impact avocado farming has had in Michoacán, Mexico. A compilation of interviews with women from Cherán, rangers from the El Rosario Monarch butterfly sanctuary, biologists and human rights activists, the documentary foregrounds the voices of those who are directly affected by the avocado trade and are actively resisting the damage being inflicted upon the culture and environment in Mexico. Tracing the supply chain from farming, harvesting and export to consumption, the film confronts viewers with their own position as the consumers who drive demand for avocados, highlighting the injustices that result from the avocado trade are a global phenomenon not isolated to Mexico.