Los Desnudos, Los Desnudos

Los Desnudos is one of the three films that comprise the Our Body is a Weapon trilogy, which brings together individuals who refer to the body as a site for political and social resistance. Los Desnudos draws particular attention to the image of the colonised body and its reappropriation by the indigenous subject. The year is 2009. A group of men and women have been demonstrating for months in the streets of Mexico City, wearing nothing else but slogans and portraits of the politicians against whom they are raising up. One of the women recounts the struggle of the indio peasants or mixed bloods, who demand that the Mexican government honor the signed agreement aiming at the restitution of the land of which they have been robbed. Camped in a car park in the heart of an upscale area of Mexico City, the protesters occupied the public space for three years, marching every day to finally get compensation after twenty years of dispossession.