Sun, Nov 7, 2021
6 PM (EDT)
LOCATION:
RUN TIME: 113min + Intermission
From Brooklyn Academy of Music’s website:
“Part of Film series Uncharted Cartographies: Remapping Latin America Through Cinema
From B movies and soap operas, to Hollywood and American independent cinema, the narco narrative has become a staple of the Latinx and Latin American representation globally. The films by these four filmmakers take a humorous and self-reflexive approach to tackle the fascination with these hegemonic narratives.”
—BAM (Brooklyn Academy of Music) website
Films To Be Screened:
Al más allá (Beyond the Beyond)
Dir. by Lourdes Portillo, USA/Mexico, 2008
43min
In Spanish with English subtitles
When a clueless filmmaker leads a fictional documentary crew through a Mexican beach town to interview local merchants and tour guides, she quickly discovers that more than information stands between her and the truth. A hybrid documentary that creatively blends reportage and narrative techniques, Al Más Allá investigates the contemporary realities of shifting global wealth and drug trafficking along the Mayan coastline of Mexico.
¡Chaporazzi!
Dir. by César Martínez Barba, USA, 2020
14min
In Spanish and English with English subtitles
Outside of El Chapo's Brooklyn trial, his mythology appears in media spectacles, sidewalk conversations, and selfies.
Fauna
Dir. by Nicolás Pereda, Mexico/Canada, 2020
70min
In Spanish with English subtitles
An actress returns home to see her family and brings her boyfriend, an actor with a small part in a popular narco drama, and they cross paths with her estranged brother in this rural Mexican village. This trickster comedy of errors transforms into a more ominous story starring all the same actors, in different roles. Mixing realism and absurdity, it explores the unpredictability of place, culture, family, and performance.
Boliwood
Dir. by Sergio Bastani, Bolivia, 2015
8min
In Spanish and English with English subtitles
A visual essay on the view of Bolivia in world cinema.