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Transborder Nahualismos – Film Screening & Artist Talk with Federico Cuatlacuatl
The College of Arts & Sciences proudly sponsored artist and filmmaker Federico Cuatlacuatl to create Transborder Nahualismos in Mexico during the summer of 2025. This deeply personal and culturally rooted project now comes to Grounds for a special screening, offering the UVA community an opportunity to engage directly with its themes and creative process.
This new commission is a continuity of his transnational aesthetic oeuvre. This project will culminate in an art film which will addressing Nahua migrations specifically from Cholula, Puebla-México while also highlighting the diasporic resilience of these communities living in the United States. Migrant Nahua futurisms is the conceptual framework for this project highlighting the community’s forced self displacement while envisioning a futurity as a mode of resistance and self-preservation. Allegorically referencing the traditional and ancestral practices of Cholula Nahua communities will visually inform this project and simultaneously challenging these histories of systemic erasure and constant re-interpretations in the last 500+ years.
This program will also serve as a survey of Cuatlacuatl’s film work to date, providing a broader context for his artistic vision and contributions to contemporary Indigenous and transborder discourse.
Event Details:
- Date & Time: November 12, 2025 – 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM
- Location: Contemplative Sciences Building
- Format: Film screening, followed by a reception and artist talk
- Special Remarks: Dean Christa Acampora will offer welcoming remarks prior to the discussion.
More to Come:
Additional details on the program lineup and reception will be shared soon. Please check back for updates and RSVP information.