{"id":19158,"date":"2015-03-09T08:34:51","date_gmt":"2015-03-09T08:34:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.skwigly.co.uk\/?p=19158"},"modified":"2017-03-06T11:32:11","modified_gmt":"2017-03-06T11:32:11","slug":"hothouse10-esteban-azuela","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.skwigly.co.uk\/hothouse10-esteban-azuela\/","title":{"rendered":"NFB Hothouse 10: \u2018Sweet Talk\u2019 (Esteban Azuela)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"esteban-azuela_cropped\"<\/a>Hailing from Mexico City, Esteban Azuela<\/a> ventured into Traditional Animation at the Vancouver Film School, having previous studied photography at the Academia de Artes Visuales. His enthusiasm for the visual arts has proved vital in the variety of projects he has taken on, ranging from video installations, live projections set to music and animation itself. His contribution to the tenth edition of the National Film Board of Canada<\/a>\u2019s Hothouse<\/a> scheme is <\/strong><\/em>Sweet Talk<\/strong><\/a>, a hand-drawn satirical take on government and media.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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\u00a0I remain concerned about the power of media and the cynicism with which the news around the globe is presented\u2014especially in my hometown in Mexico, where we live in the midst of a passive\/active war, and the violence has reached limits nobody could have imagined years ago. We read every day that local and federal governments, corporations, banks and narco-cartels are colluding, creating a wide net of organized crime. But what is keeping us passive when all this information is right in front of us? The way data is presented makes it lose its power\u2014as when a headline about secret mass graves follows a review of a soap opera, or a story is reported as if it were a fictional screenplay.
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