What happens when the “official” and the “popular” stories about your hometown do not match what you archive in your family album?
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This project is an alternative narrative force that complicates the archival landscape of the City of Medellin.
(4:07) Marta Nelly Villada Bedoya, alongside her young son, how the government came and burned down her home because it was part of an "invasion" settlement, communities that people forced to flee violence in the Colombian countryside had built in the City of Medellín. She describes how she then rebuilt her home and her hopes for all of her children, all of whom have survived the displacement and self settlement in Medellín.
(4:07) Marta Nelly Villada Bedoya, alongside her young son, how the government came and burned down her home because it was part of an "invasion" settlement, communities that people forced to flee violence in the Colombian countryside had built in the City of Medellín. She describes how she then rebuilt her home and her hopes for all of her children, all of whom have survived the displacement and self settlement in Medellín.
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