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Lost & Found: EARTH ALTARS at Anthology Film Archives

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

EARTH ALTARS / LA TIERRA LOS ALTARES
A film by Sofía Peypoch
(Mexico, 2023, 68 min. In Spanish with English subtitles)

In her haunting debut feature, Mexican filmmaker and visual artist Sofía Peypoch returns to the site of her kidnapping, undertaking a visceral excavation of memory beneath the earth’s surface. Through intimate, tactile gestures – her hands probing the soil alongside others replicating this chimerical act – the film weaves personal trauma with ancestral history, positioning the earth as an unyielding witness that refuses to forget. Combining film, photography, ceramic sculpture, and found objects, Peypoch crafts a sensory meditation on memory as a living, mutable space where past and present converge. EARTH ALTARS intricately explores how archaeology lends historical depth to intimate trauma, creating a profound dialogue between personal and collective histories.

Wednesday, October 29, 7pm
Anthology Film Archives
32 Second Avenue (at 2nd St.)
For tickets and more information visit: https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/series/59363

Presented as part of Lost & Found:  Cine(ma)s Latinoamericanos Re-unidos, co-programmed by Matías Piñeiro and Carlos A. Gutiérrez.

Watch the trailer:

Earlier Event: September 24
10th Anniversary Screening of IXCANUL at BAM
 
 
 
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