The town as a starting point
Macondo.Live places Aracataca at the center of the conversation. Local memories and everyday places offer ways to approach history through people, rather than through a literary name alone.
Work, migration and power
The banana industry, migration and political life are among the subjects explored in the documentary. They connect individual stories with wider questions about how communities experience change.
The banana massacre of 1928
The massacre is an important subject in the histories associated with Aracataca and in the documentary’s exploration of memory. The film brings it into conversation with the town’s people and other stories.
History through local voices
A documentary can place different memories alongside one another. Watch Aracataca: Where Reality Became Macondo to continue through the people, histories and landscapes at the center of this project.
Earlier writing from the collection
The previous version of this page is preserved in the historical archive.
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