This Saturday, May 17, at 7:50 p.m., 'Mother' returns to Televisión Canaria with a story that beats to the rhythm of the wind of Lanzarote. A new chapter of women who did not give up and whose protagonist, in this third installment, is Carmen.
A resident of the Arrecife neighborhood of Valterra, Carmen belongs to that generation that was born at the end of the Civil War, in a land where hands were hardened early and childhood quickly evaporated at the call of duty and raising children. This third mother who is honored by the television format did not have a path, but had to open it. Before being a mother herself, Carmen was already taking care of her siblings and taking charge of the kitchen until, like so many others, she had to go out to work to bring money home.
Carmen was the mother of eight and the support of many more. Daughter, sister, aunt, friend, neighbor... In her story, all forms of care fit. She raised children alone, worked tirelessly, made the kitchen and the countryside a school of courage, and turned necessity into strength. In her voice resonates the echo of a time when girls were women before their time and births happened between the sheets of the home, with no witness other than a neighbor with wise hands and nerves of steel. Carmen's story is also the story of the female work that sustained Lanzarote from within: first that of the tomato plants, then that of the canneries. In the seventies and eighties, the factories gave a respite - small, but their own - to hundreds of women like her, who found in that new world a way to reinvent themselves without ceasing to be essential.
Presented by Alicia Suárez, 'Mother' collects this week a legacy that is not measured in titles or assets, but in footprints: those left by women who, without making noise, sustain the world. The program becomes, once again, an archive of the feminine soul of the Canary Islands, a mirror of struggles that looked a lot like love and renunciations that tasted of dignity. Carmen sits in front of Alicia and talks to us. And in her voice is the voice of many. Of those who were, of those who are. Of those who still sustain.
Isen Media produces this program commanded by the young director Josh Acosta. Through in-depth interviews, which break down the lives of ten mothers who are a sign of the deep and unique character of the Canarian matriarchy, stories are honored that transcend ten families, ten surnames. It is a story that collects the idiosyncrasies of the native mother, with representation from all the islands of the archipelago.
A careful art direction, image and realization, accompany the intimate atmosphere that is created in Suárez's talks with each protagonist. An environment that makes you travel through time to eras, memories and experiences that, despite being often far from contemporary, is familiar to anyone who has grown up either in those times or drawing these scenes in their mind while listening to stories of everyday life of the time in the mouth of their mothers or grandmothers: a way to reconnect with the roots and vital experiences of an entire autonomous community and its history.
