Using state of the art digital filmmaking, "gorgeous time lapse sequences" (NY Newsday), and a "terrific soundtrack" (Time Out) made of a "magical montage of found sounds" (Chicago Sun-Times), Juan Carlos Rulfo's In the Pit is a powerful documentary about the personal struggles behind the construction of a massive elevated freeway. With lyricism and compassion, this Sundance Film Festival prize-winning film reveals the medieval nightmare underneath an ambitious utopian dream: Mexico City's Periférico Beltway, more than ten miles of elevated reinforced concrete, supported by massive towers, that has been planned to both soar above and link the city's densely gridlocked urban neighborhoods. But while the roadway is a spectacular miracle of modern architectural design, it comes with a human cost. A film of "unlikely beauty" (Variety), In the Pit lays bare "the secret human face of an inhuman world" (New York Times).
IN THE PIT / EN EL HOYO
A film by Juan Carlos Rulfo
(Mexico, 2006, 84 min. In Spanish with English subtitles)
Now streaming on Amazon Prime
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