Wednesday, May 10 at 7:30PM
LA SELVA NEGRA (+Q&A)
124 S 3rd St, Brooklyn, NY 11249, USA
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LA SELVA NEGRA
(THE MODERN JUNGLE)
dir. Charles Fairbanks & Saul Kak, 2016
72 min. Mexico.
In Spanish with English subtitles.
WEDNESDAY, MAY 10 – 7:30 PM
A shaman in Southern Mexico develops a hernia. As his condition worsens, Charles Fairbanks and Saul Kak follow him as he seeks medical assistance from a myriad of sources — the government, local healers and quacks — to varying degrees of failure. Self-interrogating their own documentation of main subject Don Juan, THE MODERN JUNGLE evolves from a portrait of a man and his misery into both an intervention on the documentary form as well as a critique of globalization. As they film, Fairbanks and Kak reveal the saddening ways in which capitalist schemes have devastated local communities and their traditions.
“On the one hand, to interfere alters the reality on screen; on the other hand, to do nothing requires the absence of a heart. And while this film does not definitively answer the question, it foregrounds it in a highly unique manner that makes The Modern Jungle a film to see and ponder, for filmmakers and film lovers, alike.”
— Christopher Llewellyn Reed, Hammer and Nail
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( ( ( ( ( /*\ ) ) ) ) ) ECOS DEL VOLCÁN
(ECHOES OF THE VOLCANO)
dir. Charles Fairbanks & Saul Kak, 2019
18 min. Mexico.
In Spanish & Zoque with English subtitles.
The Chichonal volcano in the northwest region of Chiapas, MX erupted in 1982. The local Zoque community was consequently evicted. Although the issues surrounding this shift were never explicitly addressed by the government, they ossified in Zoque culture and continue echoing through its practices. Kak and Fairbanks sensorially trace these echoes, piecing together a visual account of where Zoque culture stands now. Recipient of Best Documentary Short at FIC Morelia and Best International Film at Ann Arbor Film Festival.
“A tatiesque and exhilarating sonic and architectural tour of a Mexican village that was founded by displaced people fleeing a volcanic eruption. Pure cinema.”
— André Dudemaine / Présence Autochtone
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LA SELVA NEGRA
(THE MODERN JUNGLE)
dir. Charles Fairbanks & Saul Kak, 2016
72 min. Mexico.
In Spanish with English subtitles.
WEDNESDAY, MAY 10 – 7:30 PM
A shaman in Southern Mexico develops a hernia. As his condition worsens, Charles Fairbanks and Saul Kak follow him as he seeks medical assistance from a myriad of sources — the government, local healers and quacks — to varying degrees of failure. Self-interrogating their own documentation of main subject Don Juan, THE MODERN JUNGLE evolves from a portrait of a man and his misery into both an intervention on the documentary form as well as a critique of globalization. As they film, Fairbanks and Kak reveal the saddening ways in which capitalist schemes have devastated local communities and their traditions.
“On the one hand, to interfere alters the reality on screen; on the other hand, to do nothing requires the absence of a heart. And while this film does not definitively answer the question, it foregrounds it in a highly unique manner that makes The Modern Jungle a film to see and ponder, for filmmakers and film lovers, alike.”
— Christopher Llewellyn Reed, Hammer and Nail
Screens with:
( ( ( ( ( /*\ ) ) ) ) ) ECOS DEL VOLCÁN
(ECHOES OF THE VOLCANO)
dir. Charles Fairbanks & Saul Kak, 2019
18 min. Mexico.
In Spanish & Zoque with English subtitles.
The Chichonal volcano in the northwest region of Chiapas, MX erupted in 1982. The local Zoque community was consequently evicted. Although the issues surrounding this shift were never explicitly addressed by the government, they ossified in Zoque culture and continue echoing through its practices. Kak and Fairbanks sensorially trace these echoes, piecing together a visual account of where Zoque culture stands now. Recipient of Best Documentary Short at FIC Morelia and Best International Film at Ann Arbor Film Festival.
“A tatiesque and exhilarating sonic and architectural tour of a Mexican village that was founded by displaced people fleeing a volcanic eruption. Pure cinema.”
— André Dudemaine / Présence Autochtone
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