Sergei Eisenstein in Mexico and the American Southwest: Indigeneity, Ritual, Immersive Environments

This project involves organizing a conference, entitled “Sergei Eisenstein in Mexico and the American Southwest: Indigeneity, Ritual, Immersive Environments,” to be held at ASU in November 2025, with a subsequent plan for an edited volume. The conference aims to foreground Chicano, Native American, and Mexican responses to the legacy of the Soviet avant-garde filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein, and in doing so, question the politics of anthropological and archeological discourses that nourished international Modernism. The project will bring together film scholars, art historians, anthropologists, and specialists in Chicano and Latin American Art from ASU and research institutions in the USA and overseas.