Video from La Laguna del Soldado / The Soldier's Lagoon
Directed by: Pablo Alvarez-Mesa
La Laguna del Soldado / The Soldier's Lagoon w/ Huli
Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center
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La Laguna del Soldado / The Soldier's Lagoon
Pablo Alvarez-Mesa (Dir), 75 minutes, Canada, Western New York Premiere
In Spanish w/ English Subtitles.
La Laguna del Soldado delves deep into the misty Páramo region, and into an ecosystem rich in water, and saturated with oral narratives that populate the territory like foggy patches. Reflecting on the construction of oral history and its relation to the land, the film traverses the Páramo; a living and elusive archive, navigating through the dense fog suspended between Simon Bolivar’s past and Colombia’s present.
La Laguna del Soldado is the second in a three-part series of films exploring the intersection of oral narratives, political outcomes and the territories marked by Simón Bolívar’s passage during the Liberation Campaign of Colombia in 1819. The first completed part is Bicentenario.
Winner of Hot Docs Best Canadian Feature Documentary Award.
w/
"Huli"
Daniel Croix (Dir), 12 minutes, USA, East Coast Premiere
Director Daniel Croix in attendance.
After a boxer relocates from New York to Hawaiʻi, a friendship with his coach expands his awareness of ancestral connection, purpose, and power.
Still from La Laguna del Soldado / The Soldier's Lagoon
Directed by: Pablo Alvarez-Mesa
Video from Huli
Directed by: Daniel Croix
Still from Huli
Directed by: Daniel Croix
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