From Passage to Chronicle, recent short films from Latin America

Echo Chamber, by Guillermo Moncayo

Los Angeles Filmforum presents

From Passage to Chronicle, recent short films from Latin America

At the Spielberg Theatre at the Egyptian, 6712 Hollywood Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90028

Curator Federico Windhausen in person. US premieres!

Note the early start time!

In this program of recent shorts from Latin America, the rural landscape is shown to be the terrain where it becomes possible to see and sense most vividly the local effects of larger political and economic decisions. The presence of dozens of U.S. military and naval installations on the island of Puerto Rico in the past century; the loss of Colombia’s railway infrastructure; the ongoing conflicts between the landless sector and large-scale agribusiness in the Paraguayan countryside – these are a few of the consequential events with special relevance for this collection of videos. Yet these are not examples of traditional reportage or literal documentation. Threaded through the program are invocations of the fantastical, the supernatural, and the talismanic. In many of the sites represented herein, the rural locale is the space of action, of staged and choreographed performances, often carrying out secular and spiritual rituals and using movement to imply or generate narratives.

A version of this program was first presented in May 2016 as part of El Pueblo: Searching for Contemporary Latin America, the Theme section of the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen.

Tickets: $10 general; $6 for students/seniors; free for Filmforum members. Available in advance from Brown Paper Tickets at http://passagetochronicle.bpt.me or at the door.

Windhausen will be presenting another, different, program of works from Latin America at the Echo Park Film Center on Saturday Feb 28 at 8pm:

Theater of Conflict: The New Cinema of Protest in Latin America

https://www.facebook.com/events/184372305364046/