EL PUENTE (The Bridge, 1954, 50min)
Directed by Amílcar Tirado
El Puente portrays a rural community in Puerto Rico struggling to cope with the devastation of an overflowing river which threatens to derail their children’s schooling.
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REASSEMBLAGE (1982, 40min)
Directed by Trinh T Minh-Ha
Reassemblage was filmed in Senegal as part of a three year work on ethnographic field research in West Africa. In the film, Trinh explains that she intends "not to speak about/Just speak near by," her subjects, unlike in more conventional ethnographic documentary film.
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DE CIERTA MANERA (One Way or Another, 1977, 78min)
Directed by Sara Gómez
De Cierta Manera is a Cuban romantic drama that focusses on the poor neighbourhoods of Havana shortly after the 1959 Cuban revolution. The film mixes documentary-style footage with fiction to illustrate the history and problems of the post-revolutionary development process in Cuba, demonstrating how tearing down slums and building modern settlements does not necessarily or immediately change the culture of the inhabitants.
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SÁBADO DE MIERDA (Saturday of Shit, 1985-87, 25min)
Directed by Gregorio Rocha with Sarah Minter
Sábado de Mierda is a semi-documentary film that focuses on the lives of the mierdas punks ("Shit Punks") gangs in the Ciudad Nezahualcóyotl (or "Neza York") suburb of Mexico City in the 1980s.
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PRISONER'S CINEMA (2013/in production)
Directed by Beatriz Santiago Muñoz
Prisoner's Cinema centres on a conversation with Elizam Escobar, a Puerto Rican artist and writer who was convicted for political offenses against the United States and spent nearly 20 years in more than 12 prisons. In the video, Escobar narrates his experience of place, from dream-space to prison-space. Over time the conversation turns to how the experience of prison time is for him the determining dimension in the de-humanizing nature of imprisonment.
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