Event

Z -- SCREENING 6. Bronx World Film Cycle 2016.

Wi-fi (DIR/SCR/PROD Douglas Alonzo. HONDURAS, 2016, color, 3:52) Comedia. A näif, frenzied collage spoke in gibberish by shadow puppet figures captures our visceral dependence on technology, particularly our smart phones. A small high-definition screen tells is what to do and where to go, turns us into spectators of a reality often best ignored and show us the power we have when we use it to denounce and document like historians in real time. The price is extended loneliness. (New York City premiere)

Nada (SCR/DIR Javier Kafie, EL SALVADOR, 2016, color, 06:24.)

(DIR/SCR Santos Orellana. HONDURAS, 2015, color, 51:05). Santos Orellana, a Honduran artist based in San Diego, returns home to shoot a documentary of him seeking out an orphanage to paint a mural. While he admits landing in as Catholic a country as Honduras right before Easter might be bad planning, in the process he gets his father back, and a renewed sense of mission. (In Spanish with English subtitles. Special New York audience preview).