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New York Premiere of NAVAJAZO by Ricardo Silva

  • Anthology Film Archives 32 2nd Avenue New York, NY, 10003 United States (map)

NAVAJAZO
A film by Ricardo Silva
(Mexico, 2014, 75 min. In Spanish and English with English subtitles. New York Premiere)

Winner of the Golden Leopard for Best Film in the Cineasti del Presente (Filmmakers of the Present) competition at the Locarno Film Festival, Ricardo Silva’s provocative and irreverent debut feature film is a quirky fiction-documentary hybrid set in the border city of Tijuana, where a series of peculiar outcasts (a junkie couple, a musician nicknamed “El Muerto,” and an American porn director, among others) struggle to survive in a hostile post-apocalyptic environment filled with drugs, sex, and violence. “Utterly mesmerizing in its perversion” (James Lattimer, Slant Magazine), Navajazo (which means “knife wound” in Spanish) confirms Silva as a filmmaker to watch, and Tijuana as an unlikely Mexican art scene.

Presented as part of 'If You Can Screen It There: Premiering Contemporary Latin American Cinema,' co-presented by Anthology Film Archives and Cinema Tropical. Programmed by Matías Piñeiro and Carlos A. Gutiérrez.

 
 
Source:: http://anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/series/46820
Earlier Event: December 8
7th Annual Cinema Tropical Awards
Later Event: January 26
Neighboring Scenes: New Latin American Cinema
 
 
 
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