Cinema Tropical reminds us that Movie at Lincoln Middle’s annual showcase of the world’s most significant and revolutionary voices in nonfiction and hybrid filmmaking, Artwork of the Actual 2022, opens this week with an thrilling choice of movies by Latin American and Caribbean filmmakers. ‘Artwork of the Actual’ takes place March 31–April 7 at Movie at Lincoln Middle in New York Metropolis, with many of the featured Latin American filmmakers in attendance. Two of the Caribbean movies enjoying this week are This Home by Haitian-Canadian director Miryam Charles [still shown above] and Puerto Rican director Beatriz Santiago Muñoz’s The Crow, the Trench and the Mare (see descriptions beneath).
Movie at Lincoln Middle has introduced the whole lineup for ‘Artwork of the Actual,’ the ninth annual nonfiction showcase, which contains a handful of Latin American titles together with the opening night time movie My Two Voices by Colombian-American director Lina Rodríguez, the Argentine movie Camouflage by Jonathan Perel, the Chilean movie The Veteran by Jerónimo Rodríguez, This Home by Haitian-Canadian director Miryam Charles; and the brief movies The Crow, the Trench and the Mare by Puerto Rican artist Beatriz Santiago Muñoz, and Colombia’s Abrir monte by Maria Rojas Arias.
This 12 months’s version of ‘Artwork of the Actual’ is a vibrant slate of works by internationally acclaimed artists, and contains 17 options and 4 shorts. This 12 months’s filmmakers take aesthetically daring approaches to a variety of urgent and perennial points, creating meditative observations of pure environments, analyzing steadfast resolve within the presence of violence, and reflecting on international histories and economies. The collection is programmed by Dennis Lim and Rachael Rakes, with program advisor Almudena Escobar López.
[. . .] Via staged tableaux, lyrical voiceover, and vivid 16mm cinematography, This Home narrates the occasions across the unexplained dying of a 14-year-old woman in Bridgeport, Connecticut, in 2008. Collaborating with {the teenager}’s cousin, director Miryam Charles bridges places—Haiti, Canada, the U.S.—and temporalities, proposing inconceivable narratives and alternate timelines: of migrations and homecomings, tragedy and the method of overcoming it.
The Crow, the Trench and the Mare, Beatriz Santiago Muñoz’s work of radical juxtaposition attracts on strategies of simultaneous narration from Sanskrit poetry to discover picture and sound relations and the duality of our bodies, objects, and locations. [. . .]
For tickets and extra info go to: www.filmlinc.org/festivals/art-of-the-real-2022
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