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What to do when a film archive for an important historical moment does not exist? The film takes the case of the worker's strike and massacre of November 15th, 1922 for which there is no known archival moving image. Turning to another film from 1922 preserved by the country's National Film Archive, Fiestas del Centenario, as well as other international films made that year, I've tried to imagine what an audiovisual archive of that historical moment might look like. This leads me to questions of what was cinema in 1922 and in what ways cinema can collaborate with class struggle in the future... Inspired by Hito Steyerl's essay "In Defense of the Poor Image", this found footage essay film reclaims the "poor image" in the context of past and present class struggle in Ecuador.
