Brainstorm #5 - Eric Fong

Senorita Extraviada challenges representations of these young women that attempts to render the young women disposable through an alternative outlet. The video provides an alternative view of the young women who are affected. The film dives into the towns that the women are from and seek to ask questions that were left unsaid. The film gives a voice to the families where the young women came from; the film humanizes the victims and provides a story to the statistics.Lisa Cacho’s concept of “social death” focuses on the radicalization of righteousness. Cacho essentially characterizes those who are 'dead' in the eyes of society. They do not have rights or attention; they are merely cast-off to the margins.
"In painting the crosses in public spaces, Voces sin Eco forged a new public identity for women, claiming public space for them as citizens of the nation." (21)
"religiosity gives voice to a new consciousness, one that recognizes the contradictions in the interface between woman’s visibility as abject subject (murder victim) and the invisibility of woman in the public sphere (citizen)."
The previous two quotes illustrated a few acts of resilience that families used to confront the tragedies of young women. They sought representation for murders that had happened. Families used grassroots movement works of art and religiosity to preserve the memory of the murders as well as confirms its existence.
Art functions as a witness by consolidating and preserving the history of what has happened from all sides of the story. The film Senorita Extraviada acts as one of these witnesses. Art seeks to provides an alternative views as well as stand after the event passes as evidence of an event's existence.