Ongoing
Anthology Film Archives
New York City, despite its status as a world capital of cinema, regularly misses out on screenings of many key international films. Though the exhibition of Latin American cinema in the city has drastically increased over the years, a considerable number of influential movies from the region still fail to premiere locally. In 2017, Anthology Film Archives and Cinema Tropical joined forces to create an ongoing series – programmed by Matías Piñeiro and Carlos A. Gutiérrez – of monthly screenings featuring remarkable Latin American films making their local premiere. We paused the series (formerly entitled “If You Can Screen It There”) following the pandemic, but we’re delighted to revive it now, rechristened as “Lost & Found: Cine(ma)s Latinoamericanos Re-Unidos”. Far from minor works, the films included here are by some of the region’s most important filmmakers, have garnered major awards at international festivals, and provide an important window into the often-overlooked world of Latin American cinema.
Co-presented by Anthology Film Archives and Cinema Tropical. Programmed by Matías Piñeiro and Carlos A. Gutiérrez.
All screenings at Anthology Film Archives
32 Second Avenue (at 2nd Street), New York City
(212) 505-5181 / www.anthologyfilmarchives.org
RIDERS / EL REPARTIDOR ESTÁ EN CAMINO
A film by Martín Rejtman
(Argentina/Portugal/Venezuela, 2024, 82 min. In Spanish with English subtitles)
U.S. Premiere!
“A leading light of the New Argentine Cinema (with Lucrecia Martel and Lisandro Alonso, among others) at the end of the 1990s, Martín Rejtman is best known for his minimalist fiction. His second documentary is set in Buenos Aires during the pandemic and follows delivery drivers for local UberEats clone apps, the majority of which are Venezuelans who have fled the crisis ravaging their country. The precise framing highlights the mechanical aspect behind the work that these young men do. Constantly on the go, carrying their fluorescent, cube-shaped delivery bags, they have become the paradoxically invisible icons of 2.0 platforms. However, Rejtman also intends to give them depth by filming the day-to-day life of Joel and his brother, particularly their private life. These two ‘riders’, recently arrived in Argentina, put human faces on the anonymous collective of delivery drivers, and establish a connection with the second part of the film, which was shot in their home country. Through exceptionally fluid editing work, the Argentinian director has created a humanist and structuralist film which powerfully reveals the close links between migratory dynamics and the net economy, at opposite ends of the South American continent.” –Emmanuel Chicon, Visions du Réel
SILENT WITNESSES / MUDOS TESTIGOS
A film by Luis Ospina and Jerónimo Atehortúa
(Colombia, 2023, 78 min. No dialogue)
New York Premiere!
Silent Witnesses is an imaginative journey through the history of Colombia—and its cinema—during the tumultuous first half of the 20th century, using exclusively the surviving footage of Colombian silent cinema. This melodrama tells the impossible love story between Efraín and Alicia, set against the political upheaval in the early 1900s. The story begins with Efraín falling in love with Alicia, a woman promised to Uribe, a powerful and vengeful strongman. Their romance quickly unfolds into a journey through the heart of the jungle, where Efraín witnesses the dire conditions of peasants in the southern region and the birth of an armed rebellion. This film is the last work of the late Luis Ospina, one of the most influential filmmakers in Latin American cinema, and the debut feature of producer and film critic Jerónimo Atehortúa.
Wednesday, June 25, 7pm
