LA Filmforum Executive Director, Adam Hyman, in attendance!
Doors open at 6PM

Cineworks presents Umbrales: Experimental Women Filmmakers from Latin America

This program showcases female filmmakers who sought to carve out a place within the male-dominated world of Latin American independent audiovisual production. Key works, such as Argentine filmmaker Narcisa Hirsch’s Come Out (1971), exemplify the defiant position toward gendered and essentializing aesthetics expected of Latin American women filmmakers. This program includes pioneering Uruguayan filmmaker Lydia García Millán’s Color (1955), one of the first abstract experimental films from Latin America; the politically charged Super 8 experiments by Puerto Rican underground artist Poli Marichal; and a recent video essay by Mexican artist Ximena Cuevas.

Come Out
Narcisa Hirsch, Argentina, 1971, 11 min.
Color
Lydia Garcia, Uruguay, 1955, 4 min.
Desnudo con alcatraces
Silvia Gruner, Mexico, 1986, 2 min., silent, b&w
Popsicles
Gloria Camiruaga, Chile/US, 1982-1984, 5 min., Spanish w/ English subtitles
Umbrales
Marie Louise Alemann, Argentina, 1967, 19 min.
Paracas
Cecilia Vicuña, Chile/US, 1983, 19 min., Spanish w/ English subtitles
Devil in the Flesh
Ximena Cuevas, Mexico, 2003, 5 min., Spanish w/ English subtitles
Copacabana
Vivian Ostrovsky, Brazil, 1983, 10 min.
Blues Tropical
Poli Marichal, Puerto Rico, 1982, 4 min.

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