Melting Snow

Name: Melting Snow
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2021
Duration: 8 min

English / 2021 / 8m

Not streamingNot currently on the Criterion Channel.

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Synopsis

Two tons of snow—flown from New Hampshire to Puerto Rico in 1952 in order to “gift” Puerto Ricans a “white Christmas”—become a metaphor for the colonialist paternalism of America’s relationship to Puerto Rico.

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Holiday Short
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DirectorJanah Elise Cox

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Melting Snow

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