Carleton will screen filmmaker and photographer Shaul Schwarz’s acclaimed 2013 documentary “Narco Cultura” on Wednesday, Oct. 26 at 5 p.m. in the Weitz Center for Creativity Cinema. “Narco Cultura” exposes the cycle of addiction to money, drugs, and violence resulting from the war on drugs in the Mexican border town of Ciudad Juárez.
For Mexicans and Latinos in the Americas, there is no music more popular today than narcocorridos. These bloodthirsty and explicit odes to the exploits of narco traffickers and drug lords of Mexico openly glorify violence, narcotics, and money. Like gangsta rap in the nineties, “narco” is a movement threatening to burst into the mainstream.
Featuring powerful footage from the front lines of the drug wars and performances from some of the hottest narcocorrido artists (including El Komander and Buknas de Culiacan), “Narco Cultura” takes viewers behind the scenes of the most explosive and violent music subculture in America. More information, including official trailers for the film can be found online at www.narcoculture.com.
This event is sponsored by the Carleton College Department of Spanish. For more information, including disability accommodations, call (507) 222-4252. The Weitz Center for Creativity is located at Third and College Streets in Northfield.
