The camera glides smoothly and naturally between different worlds and forms of existence, between day and night, moving back and forth from blazing light to all-enveloping darkness.
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Together with their protagonist, César Alejandro Jaimes and Juan Pablo Polanco have crafted a debut film full of haunting images and sounds, with a diaphanous aesthetic that gives form to the unseen. With the support of her mother and grandmother, she sets out on a richly sensorial journey that brings her into close contact with the dead and their world. To ensure that her cousin may rest in peace, Doris must exhume the bones of the deceased and clean them before burying them a second time. “When Doris’s dead cousin appears to her in a dream, the vision prompts her to embark upon the most important ritual of the Wayuu, an indigenous group living in Colombia’s Guajira Desert. Official Selection, Sundance Film Festival
Winner, Best Latin American Documentary, Cinema Tropical Awards In Wayuunaiki and Spanish with English subtitles) (César Alejandro Jaimes and Juan Pablo Polanco, Colombia, 2019, 75 min. And with them he discovers every stage of that succession of events that is the path of the film itself.” –Hugo Santiago The engineer works himself very well with the maps, marks the route that allows him to quickly visualize each site of the city. And this film is built as a geometric theorem. “Geometry is of great importance in my cinema. The last film by the great Hugo Santiago ( Invasión, Les Autres), The Sky of the Centaur was written in collaboration with Mariano Llinás ( La Flor), edited by Alejo Moguillansky, and features performances by Malik Zidi and Romina Paula. When the package is taken away from him the Engineer embarks on a wild and dizzying quest, within a city, a sort of “wonder box” that little by little seems out of this world. The Engineer goes down to the city to honor his father’s request: deliver a small package to one of his friends, Victor Zagros. The ship moors at dawn in Buenos Aires, from where it will sail again the next day. In Spanish and French with English subtitles) (212) 505-5181 / THE SKY OF THE CENTAUR / EL CIELO DEL CENTAURO
Special thanks to Fábio Andrade, Cecilia Barrionuevo, Cavi Borges, Emilie Lesclaux, and Mary Jane Marcasiano.Īll screenings at Anthology Film Archivesģ2 Second Avenue (at 2nd Street), New York City Programmed by Matías Piñeiro and Carlos A. Far from minor works, the films included here are by some of the region’s most important filmmakers, have garnered major awards at international festivals, and provide an important window into the often overlooked world of Latin American cinema.Ĭo-presented by Anthology Film Archives and Cinema Tropical.
English patient screenit series#
Anthology Film Archives and Cinema Tropical have partnered to create a new and exciting series of monthly screenings featuring remarkable Latin American films making their local premiere. Though the exhibition of Latin American cinema in the city has drastically increased over the past decade, a considerable number of influential movies from the region still fail to premiere locally. New York City, despite its status as a world capital of cinema, regularly misses out on screenings of many key international films.
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