Abstract
This article deals with the representation of death in Mexican film and photography that portrays the Low German Mennonite community. As it examines Carlos Reygadas’ film Stellet Licht (Silent Light, 2007) and Eunice Adorno’s collection of photographs, Las mujeres flores (2011), it considers the ways these works allude to the Mexican State’s control of life and death in the early twenty-first century. It emphasizes that the way Low German Mennonites appear in these examples of Mexican popular culture relates to the role of the Low German minority in Mexico today. It argues that by closely reading this film and collection of photographs, we gain a better understanding of the relationship between Low German Mennonites that exist at the limits of State power and the Mexican State.
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