» More images Take a glimpse at the work being produced by America’s newest batch of filmmakers. Honest and innovative with an underlying sense of humor, these short works were produced apart from the mainstream, dwelling in a realm of their own. Program: “Metal Mom,” a documentary by Claire Houghtalen, illustrates the relationship between a… Read more »
» More images IbÈria is an hour-long, hybrid-genre film whose main ingredients are esoterica, poetry, ethnic pastiche, and camp humor. An atmosphere of paranoid desire builds on the cusp of some demise; a fictional totalitarian empire goes under. The film opens with a non-sequitur, presenting itself as the visual fragments of a spiritual journey made… Read more »
The word “subdesarrollo” or underdevelopment plagues everyone who lives in Latin America. It may mean a colonized economy or insufficient industrial development, or it just may come to mean the idea that foreign is better. The Cuban film MEMORIES OF UNDERDEVELOPMENT directed by Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, deals with this topic of underdevelopment in a number… Read more »