Event

Los Posibles

Pulsos Latinos

Apr 19 - Apr 26

(Santiago Mitre, Juan Onofri Barbato, Argentina, 2013, DCP, 55 min)

Saturday, Apr 19 at 05:00PM
Tuesday, Apr 22 at 09:00PM
Saturday, Apr 26 at 09:00PM

The follow-up to Santiago Mitre's student political drama El Estudiante (featured in last year's focus on Argentine films at Northwest Film Forum) comes as an unexpected surprise: Los Posibles is a dance film, albeit as mysterious and propulsive as his first narrative feature.

Made in collaboration with choreographer Juan Onofri Barbato and Grupo KM29, Los Posibles is a cryptic and ultimately kinetic performance which enacts (and reconfigures) rituals of codified masculinity, a street-wise West Side Story told through gesture and a hammering drum-track belted out in the margins of an industrial 'stage.'

The title refers to acts of self-realization within and beyond the frame: this mesmerizing dance group is the dedicated result of an at-risk youth program.

SCREENS WITH La Piel (Ezequiel Yanco, Argentina)

A man and a woman go through the motions of dubbing a pornographic film. But the most clichéd of genres may not be what it appears, in this alternately droll and passionate take on the representation of desire.

Part of our series Pulsos Latinos: Films from the frontier of Latin American cinema. Read more about new Latino cinema on our screens >