The touching and formally audacious film 306 Hollywood directed by Venezuelan-American sister-brother artists and filmmakers Elan and Jonathan Bogarín, is a visually captivating, and magical realist documentary. When Elan and Jonathan lose their beloved grandmother Annette, they face a profound question: When a loved one dies, what do we do with the things they leave behind? Turning documentary on its head, the Bogaríns embark on a magical-realist journey to discover who their grandmother really was, transforming her cluttered New Jersey home of 71 years into a visually exquisite ruin where tchotchkes become artifacts, and the siblings become archaeologists. With help from physicists, curators, and archivists—and the added inspiration of a decade of interviews with the vivacious octogenarian herself—they excavate the extraordinary universe contained in Annette’s home. Drawing from diverse Latin American narrative tools—the tradition of oral history, literary magical realism, the form-bending non-fiction cinema of the region—and handsomely photographed by and handsomely photographed by the Bogaríns in collaboration with Mexican cinematographer Alejandro Mejía, 306 Hollywood playfully transforms the dusty fragments of an unassuming life into an epic metaphor for the nature of time, memory, and history, and announces the Bogaríns as up-and-coming Latinx filmmakers to watch.
306 HOLLYWOOD
A film by Elan and Jonathan Bogarín
(USA, 2018, 82 min. In English)
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