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Nightingale Cinema presents Umbrales: Experimental Women Filmmakers from Latin America

  • Nightingale Cinema 1084 North Milwaukee Avenue Chicago, IL, 60642 United States (map)

This program showcases female filmmakers who sought to carve out a place within the male-dominated world of Latin American independent audiovisual production.

Program:

  • Come Out (Narcisa Hirsch, Argentina, 1971, 11 min.)

  • Color (Lydia Garcia, Uruguay, 1955, 4 min.)

  • Desnudo con alcatraces (Silvia Gruner, Mexico, 1986, 2 min., silent, b&w)

  • Popsicles (Gloria Camiruaga, Chile/US, 1982-1984, 5 min., Spanish w/ English subtitles)

  • Umbrales (Marie Louise Alemann, Argentina, 1967, 19 min.)

  • Paracas (Cecilia Vicuña, Chile/US, 1983, 19 min., Spanish w/ English subtitles)

  • Devil in the Flesh (Ximena Cuevas, Mexico, 2003, 5 min., Spanish w/ English subtitles)

  • Copacabana (Vivian Ostrovsky, Brazil, 1983, 10 min.)

  • Blues Tropical (Poli Marichal, Puerto Rico, 1982, 4 min.)