Using found footage, animation, and personal videos, these films from Mexico and Chicago speak to each other through long-term experience, using identity as a way of expanding time, connecting desperate times with images, and opposing the immobility of the past. The program highlights both countries and how they use the medium to talk about past events and the ways they affect the present. These works are ritualistically heightened, using urban video and the flickering of colorful projections consisting of dialogue reminiscent of an image of aspirational wealth. These works are a visually pleasing, humorous hallucinatory montage consisting of concrete realities reminiscent of formal precision and tenderness. Programmed for Nightingale Projects by Raul Benitez and Tzutzu Matzin. Followed by a discussion with select filmmakers to be announced.
Film Info
Runtime: 70 min.
Release Year: 2016-2022
Production Country: USA, Mexico
Original Language: English, Spanish
Cast/Crew Info
Director: Various
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Tags: Chicago, Gene Siskel Film Center, Loop, NIGHTINGALE PROJECTS, Nightingale Projects: The Root and the Harvest (La Raíz y la Cosecha), Raul Benitez, The Root and the Harvest (La Raíz y la Cosecha), Tzutzu Matzin
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