Oct 2nd 2019

Adrián García Orozco: La Piel de las Almas

@ 6018North

6018 N Kenmore Ave Chicago, IL, 60660

Opening Wednesday, October 2nd, from 7PM - 9PM

Join us for a screening of two short, powerfully tender documentary films.

7 PM
“La Piel de las Almas, 2019,” by Adrián García Orozco
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Through family histories of loss and memory, and the material culture of mourning, “La Piel de las Almas” pushes back against the monopoly of storytelling by giving everydayness and intimate histories the space they deserve in the making of History.

Adrián García (León, MX, 1990) works with filmmaking in general and stop-motion in particular, as a way to animate the material life that surrounds us and that somehow guides our relationship with spaces and things, as well as with memory and others.

8 PM
“It Was Like She Never Existed,” by Ana García JaCome
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It’s like she had never existed. We never go to the cemetery to see her, they never tell her childhood stories or her achievements. The only thing that is known is that she was sick. I only know what she looks like because of the picture in the grandparents’ bathroom, where she looks normal, but fearful. Of the several family albums of photographs of parties and picnics, she only appears in 2 when she was very young and someone is always holding her up, forcing her, pointing towards the camera as if she was not able to find it by herself. The only frequent reference to her name is when naming the room she occupied, which was built specifically for her: the room at the back of the house, the smallest, which after being “the room of Coquis” was “the room of the children,” my room.

When does sickness becomes disability? Why does it seem like she never existed? What is it that everyone wants to erase? Why?

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Admission is free and open to the public.
The Justice Hotel will be making popcorn.
https://www.justicehotel.org/programs-events

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