Be-Longing is a Micro-Documentaries series dedicated to Houston´s linguistic legacy

Houston, recently declarated teh city with the greatest diversiy of «mother tongues» in te United States of America, displays a multiplicity of cultures that are expressed in a diverse set of languages. The Be-Longing project aims to make visible a group of 4 of these spoken languages through 4 unique family stories.

About Be-Longing a Micro-Documentaries Series
In each story, an object is chosen to be the trigger for a story of a journey that evokes uprooting and regeneration. Each video presents stories between two speakers, one, the issuer of a mother tongue and the other, represents the mediator who personifies a new local generation that articulates the dominant English language.

This material object evokes cultural ties that are seemingly enigmatic to everyone, except to those who retain their mother tongue.