Film Screening: "Amorfo: Te Busque"

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The New York Premier of a short film by Mario Rosales
Based upon a prose poem by Gustavo Maldonado

"Amorfo: Te Busque"

Described as a "cinematic poem for a tormented generation," Mario Rosales' "Amorfo" is a meditation on violence and its descent through history. In telling the story of Constanza and Gregorio, children of Guatemala's thirty-year civil war, "Amorfo" reflects on the consequences of violence for the memories and relationships that make up the substance of a society. The son of one of Guatemala's most tyrannical military dictators, Gregorio finds himself slowly slipping into madness as he struggles to comprehend his father's culpability in the destruction of the Spanish Embassy and the murder of forty campesinos in 1980. Unable to cope with Gregorio's madness, Constanza embarks on an existential journey amid the streets of Guatemala City. As she moves through the city, Constanza confronts the hypocrisies of the present, while shedding the skin of the past.

Mixing digital video with super8, 16mm, still photography and news archival footage from Guatemala's recent, bloody past, the film crosses the lines of fiction and history to construct a portrait of a society struggling to comprehend the incomprehensible.

Screenings:

CUNY Graduate Center
34th St & 5th Av.
Baisley Powell Elebash Recital Hall.
Friday, February 24th
7pm

Instituto Cervantes at Amster Yard
211-215 East 49th Street
Tuesday, February 28th
6pm

Cantor Film Center
New York University
36 East 8th Street
Thursday, March 2
7 PM

There will be a forum after each screening.

For more information please contact: contacto@amorfo-tebusque.com or visit the web site http://amorfo-tebusque.com/