La Niña Blanca
TV documentary / 2012 | 15 min
Canal Futura
Editor
Between remnants of the past and today's urbanism, Mexico City is a mix of ancestral and contemporary cultures that fully live in the underground. In the old times, Aztecs worshiped Mictlantecuhtli the goddess of death in subterranean temples; today, at the bottom of the social pyramid, many Mexicans worship a similar deity called the Santa Muerte (the Holly Death).
The span> Santa Muerte is also known as the Niña Blanca (the White Lady) because of her exhibited skeleton. She is the patron-saint of the prisoners and the underclass, and is the object of fervent critiques in the Mexican society.
Direction:
Aude Chevalier-Beaumel