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Shot in Ecuador, it’s a journey that starts at the ocean, continues through the mountains and descends in the jungle. A timeless experience through images of people waiting to be watched.
Alexandra Cuesta cites eternal wanderer Henri Michaux as one of the inspirations for her first feature. It’s curious, then, that the opening sequence of Territorio (the first film Cuesta shot in her native Ecuador) shows us a boat heading for the shore. It is very likely that, to Cuesta, the image of water hides the same connotation than it does to the author of “The Sea of Breasts”: returning home, being sheltered in the mother’s womb. Without detouring from the formal approaches of her previous work, Cuesta traces a journey that crosses the country from north to south, drawing a human cartography in which the aim is to achieve an impossible balance between the foreign traveler’s gaze and the earnest familiarity of those who return home temporarily. FG
D, F: Alexandra Cuesta E: Alexandra Cuesta, Pablo Mazzaolo S: Xavier Muller P: Alexandra Cuesta, Alfredo Mora, Micaela Rueda
Alexandra Cuesta T +1 607 422 0335 E alexiagalaxia@gmail.com W alexandracuesta.com
She was born in Ecuador in 1980, and studied photography in Savannah, Georgia and then film at CalArts. She directed many shorts, like Piensa en mí (2009) and Despedida (2012).
27 de April de 2016
Durante 11 días y en 27 sedes, la ciudad se vistió de cine con una notable respuesta del público.
24 de April de 2016
find here which are the surprise films that bafici programmed for today at village recoleta: there are tickets available for all screenings.
24 de April de 2016
enjoy a free three-part program at cc recoleta: shorts from the “hacelo corto” fest, wallace & gromit and michael jackson.
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