by Alfonso Abad Mancheño
Assistant Professor of Spanish, Guilford College
You are cordially invited to attend the 23rd Latin American Film Festival. This year we have a very exciting film festival here in Greensboro and the Triangle. The events are FREE and open to the public.
The film festival is sponsored by the Consortium in Latin American and Caribbean Studies. Most of the movies will be shown in the Triangle. However, we have a very exciting program here in Greensboro. We have an Argentine movie accompanied by a Tango band and a new movie by director Alex Rivera, winner of the Alfred P. Sloan Prize in the 2008 Sundance Film Festival. Please feel free to share this information with friends, colleagues, or any person that you think might be interested in this information.
The film festival is sponsored by the Consortium in Latin American and Caribbean Studies. Most of the movies will be shown in the Triangle. However, we have a very exciting program here in Greensboro. We have an Argentine movie accompanied by a Tango band and a new movie by director Alex Rivera, winner of the Alfred P. Sloan Prize in the 2008 Sundance Film Festival. Please feel free to share this information with friends, colleagues, or any person that you think might be interested in this information.
FRIDAY, November 13. 7 pm. Frank Family Science Center. Guilford College. Greensboro, NC
EL AURA, Fabián Bielinski (Argentina, 2006) 134 min.
Espinoza is a shy taxidermist who secretly dreams of executing the perfect robbery. On his first ever hunting trip, in the calm of the Patagonian forest, his dreams become reality with one squeeze of the trigger. Espinoza accidentally kills a man who turns out to be a real criminal and inherits his scheme: the heist of an armored van carrying casino profits. Caught up in a world of complex new rules and frightening violence, Espinoza's lack of experience puts him in real danger. And he has another, more dangerous liability: he is an epileptic. Before each seizure he is visited by the ''aura'': a paradoxical moment of confusion and enlightenment where the past and future seem to blend.
Spanish with English Subtitles
Introduced by Kathryn Bowers, Dept. of Spanish Language, Guilford College
Musical Presentation by Lorena Guillen & Alejandro Rutty, Tango.
FRIDAY, November 20. 7pm. Frank Family Science Center. Guilford College. Greensboro, NC
SLEEP DEALER. Alex Rivera (Mexico-USA, 2008). 90 min.
Sleep Dealer is a science fiction set in a world, not too unlike our own, in which a global, high speed network ties distant people and places together. The story takes place among 3 characters who inhabit very different spaces in this world: a migrant, a soldier, and a writer. Memo Cruz is a young peasant farmer in southern Mexico (he wants to leave his town and make a better life in the North); Rudy Gaeta is a soldier fighting in this future war (against terrorism, in Rudy's first assignment he attacks Memo's home in Mexico); Luz is a writer, she connects her body to the net, speaks and puts the recorded memories up for sale on the net - a blog, straight from the brain (she narrates the story of Memo).
In Tijuana, Memo finds work in a futuristic factory - he earns dollars by connecting his body to the net, and controlling a worker drone in America. At home in San Diego, Rudy the soldier spends his free time plugging in and watching recordings of other people's memories. He finds Luz's story, buys it, and for the first time, through Luz's recorded memories, he sees Memo's face - the face of his victim. Through Luz's stories, effectively through her eyes and ears, Rudy gets to know Memo. And as Luz and Memo fall in love, Rudy realizes what he's done.
Sleep Dealer won the Alfred P. Sloan Prize in the 2008 Sundance Film Festival. Geoffrey Gilmore, the festival director, describes the movie as "a combination of The Matrix, Blade Runner and The Border." A Latino Sci-Fi classic (already).
English and Spanish with subtitles
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