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Audience at "Club Red Radio"

The Five Suns: The Sacred History of Mexico
(1996, 59 min. Animation) US
Producer: Patricia Amlin
Director: Patricia Amlin
Produced by: Film Arts Foundation

Ancient Aztec iconography is used to tell creation myths and sacred stories of Aztec and other Nahuatl-speaking peoples of central Mexico. In the stories Quetzalcoatl and Tezcatlipoca create heaven and earth, journey to the underworld to create humans and find sustenance for them, and finally create the sun and the moon.

Image credit: Audience at Club Red Radio, 2000 Native American Film and Video Festival - photograph by Amalia Córdova, NMAI

Mapping Mexican Media: Indigenous and Community Video and Radio
1997 Native American Film and Video Festival
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