Soy mi madre

Roaring Fork Valley, a region in Colorado in the western US: Glasgow artist Phil Collins studies the immigrants, who mostly come from northern Mexico and often work in the service branch. Most of them work at the most popular winter resort in the USA: Aspen. Inspired by Jean Genets "The Maids" (Theatre of the Absurd, the Surrealist) and from the melodrama of Latin American telenovelas, SOY MI MADRE is a portrait of the social reality of this region. Collins reproduces the telenovela on in his very own radical, artistic way. He works with popular Mexican television actors (like Patricia Reyes Spíndola, Zaide Silvia Guitérrez and Veronica Langer) and with transsexual prostitutes from Mexico City.
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With SOY MI MADRE Collins immerses himself into the world of telenovela, creating a hybrid form out of its narrative and aesthetic structures. SOY MI MADRE was shot in Mexico City with a cast including some of Mexico’s best known actresses while at the same time being conceived as part of a residency in Aspen, Colorado, whose Latino community Collins pays tribute to with this ‘site specific’ work. Revolving around the ideas of role-playing and performance, masks and mirrors, symbols and rituals, soy mi madre posits social roles as volatile, defined by their inherent potential for theatricality and violence.