The heart broken in half [electronic resource] / produced and directed by Taggart Siegel and Dwight Conquergood ; written by Dwight Conquergood.

New York, NY : Filmakers Library, 1992.

English

This edition in English.

1 online resource (57 min.).

HV6439.U5 H437 1992

Challenging stereotypes, this documentary gives voice to the street youths and reveals their underground culture. Here is an intricate web of symbols and passions, territory and brotherhood, honor and, all too often, death. Images of street bravado are counterpointed with scenes inside laundromats where gang members are folding clothes and playing with babies. The violent death and funeral of a Guatemalan street youth stir up the deepest feelings and most haunting questions about both the vulnerability and the heroic ethic of gang life.

"Based on the ethnographic fieldwork of Dwight Conquergood"--Credits.
Originally released as VHS.

Previously released as DVD.

American Psychiatric Association, 1993
Award, North Carolina International Film & Video Festival, 1991
Certificate of Merit, Chicago International Film Festival, 1990
Council on Foundations, 1991

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