Cinema Puerto Rico: una antropología visual

Oct 28, 2014

1h 44m

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Overview

A look at Puerto Rico and its cinema through films, documentaries, and commercials from the early twentieth century to the emerging cinema of today. Visual and narrative strategies portray fragments of Puerto Rico's general history and, in turn, answers the questions of who, when, and for whom have films been made in Puerto Rico and the resources that are available to do it.

Genres

Documentary

Production Companies

Producciones Zaranda

Cinema Puerto Rico: una antropología visual Trailers

Cast

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Ivonne Belén

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Jacobo Morales

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Marcos Zurinaga

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Karen Rossi Coughlin

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Alex Santiago Pérez

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Benjamín López

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Rose Marie Bernier

Narrator

Braulio Castillo Jr.

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Ineabelle Colón

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Manuel Valdés Pizzini

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Eduardo Rosado

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Demetrio Fernández

Guillermo Gómez Álvarez explores the identity politics of Puerto Rico via archival footage from various sources that clash with nine original songs from local independent musicians and a thematic analysis from a psychoanalyst and a historian. From the juxtaposition the absurd becomes coherent and the coherent becomes absurd as Puerto Rican identity is defined and rejected almost simultaneously.

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El apagón: Aquí vive gente

Sep 16, 2022

“El Apagón: Aquí Vive Gente” is a documentary directed by Bad Bunny and Blanca Graulau. This 23-minute film explores the socio-economic challenges in Puerto Rico, focusing on the effects of power outages and gentrification driven by the real estate and energy sectors. Through visuals and personal stories, the documentary highlights the experiences of Puerto Rican communities facing these issues.

7.0

The Last Colony

Apr 30, 2015

A close look at Puerto Rico's unique relationship with the United States.

6.0

San Juan, más allá de las murallas

Oct 6, 2022

Explore the 500-year history of the city of San Juan, from the move from Caparra to the different invasions during these centuries. It also looks at how different situations and people were key to what is now the capital of Puerto Rico. This documentary presents, through the recreation of key situations, archival material, and accounts of historians and researchers, decisive moments that influenced what is now the capital.

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Landfall

Apr 15, 2020

Hurricane María abated, the news crews packed up and left Puerto Rico, and the interest of the international community turned elsewhere. What happened next?

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The Last American Colony

Oct 18, 2019

Puerto Rico, the last relic of colonization in the western hemisphere, has been a dependent territory of the USA since 1917. Los Macheteros and one of its leaders Juan Segarra have been fighting for its full independence for many decades.

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Las carpetas

Oct 20, 2012

How fair is it for the government to control its citizens? Four Puerto Ricans confront their past when they open their “files”, the records obtained of the illegal surveillance and persecution that the Puerto Rican government held against citizens and organizations that disagreed with the establishment. Through their daily life, they will tell us their stories, experiences and intimate feelings of the persecution they suffered. Taking their past as an example, we will confront the present.

10.0

PsiQuis: Un Giro Decolonial

Aug 14, 2023

PsiQuis: Un Giro Decolonial is a documentary that presents and discusses the psychological impact that colonialism has had on the Puerto Rican people. The director analyzes the traumas generated in Puerto Rican society by that colonial experience.

5.5

After Maria

Apr 28, 2019

Strong Puerto Rican women forced to flee the island after Hurricane Maria have bonded like family in a FEMA hotel in the Bronx. They seek stability in their new life as forces try to pull them apart.

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4.7

One-Way Ticket

Dec 31, 1983

Documentary about how the arrival of the railway industry impacted Puerto Rican culture economically, socially, and humanistically during the first half of the 20th century. It includes photos by Jack Delano, among others, and scenarios to reconstruct the experience of what could have been the last trip made by train from San Juan to Ponce in 1953.

6.0

Nuyorican Básquet

Jul 13, 2017

The story of the basketball players that represented Puerto Rico at the San Juan's 1979 Pan Am Games.

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Julia, toda en mí

Jul 20, 2002

A poetic journey about the life and work of Puerto Rican poet Julia de Burgos.

5.0

El puente

Jan 1, 1951

The efforts of a community to build a bridge which would allow their children to go school during the rainy season.

5.5

Your Day Is My Night

May 10, 2014

Immigrant residents of a “shift-bed” apartment in the heart of New York City’s Chinatown share their stories of personal and political upheaval. As the bed transforms into a stage, the film reveals the collective history of the Chinese in the United States through conversations, autobiographical monologues, and theatrical movement pieces. Shot in the kitchens, bedrooms, wedding halls, cafés, and mahjong parlors of Chinatown, this provocative hybrid documentary addresses issues of privacy, intimacy, and urban life.

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Luisa tenía razón

Jul 26, 1968

Explores concerns about uterine cancer and the value of the Pap Test in detecting this serious type of cancer.

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Desigualdad y Pobreza

Jan 1, 1988

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Melting Snow

Apr 8, 2021

Two tons of snow—flown from New Hampshire to Puerto Rico in 1952 in order to “gift” Puerto Ricans a “white Christmas”—become a metaphor for the colonialist paternalism of America’s relationship to Puerto Rico.

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6.9

La operación

Jun 17, 1982

Documentary on the mass sterilization of Puerto Rican women during the 1950s and '60s.

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Antonio Paoli: Rey de Tenores y Tenor de Reyes

Jan 2, 1991

The life and career of Puerto Rican tenor Antonio Paoli, also known as The King of Tenors and The Tenor of Kings.

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Artificial Roles

Mar 8, 2025

Artificial intelligence is taking on different roles in the filmmaking space. The questions we must ask ourselves are: what are the pros and cons of this advancement? How can we work with it, and what power do we have as human beings in the face of this technology?