PLEBEIAN ULYSSES / ULYSSES PLEBEYO
A film by César González
(Argentina, 2024, 68 min. No dialogue)
North American premiere
“Prolific Argentine filmmaker and poet César González has been crafting one of the most original and groundbreaking bodies of work in contemporary Argentine cinema. Yet, far too little of it has been screened in the U.S.—and it’s time to change that. González has authored books of poetry, novels, and essays on cinema, that depict life on the margins of society—a life he has lived and continues to live intensely. This experience resonates deeply in each of his films. Plebeian Ulysses is his most experimental work to date. A collage, an agitprop travelogue, a kaleidoscope of sounds and images – it seeks to awaken the beauty of everyday life in a world the middle class has been taught not to see, but to fear. Filmmaker Lucrecia Martel has described his work as ‘a modest sewer through which the ideas with which we mask our privileges seep.’ Plebeian Ulysses is a patchwork of contrasting fragments that bloom like the sharp petals of a copper shiny rose.” —Matías Piñeiro
Wednesday, November 19, 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.
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