The Gene Siskel Film Center’s Panorama Latinx programming and outreach initiative is pleased to announce the second edition of our short film showcase. This year’s edition introduces the works of Chicago-based filmmakers representing Brazil, Colombia, Nicaragua, Peru, Haiti, Puerto Rico and Mexico. Addressing the complexities of our time through different genres and methods of storytelling, the films guide us over the nuances of identity and collectivity in the 21st century. From ecology to social dynamics, the directors present a manifold of practices that point to the relevance of imagination in today’s world. In Spanish and English with English subtitles. DCP and ProRes digital.
THIS YEAR'S JURY
Marcela Fuentes: Associate Professor at Northwestern University and author of Performance Constellations: Networks of Protest and Activism in Latin America
Alan Medina: Co-founder of filmfront and Inga.
Marina Resende: artist, researcher and critic for Hyperallergic and THE SEEN, among others.
Directors Carol Bedoy, Sol y Chaski, Sofia Alfaro, Gonzalo Escobar Mora, Nat Pyper, Milton Guillén, Gustavo Jardim are scheduled to appear for audience discussion
As an indifferent teenage girl prepares for her senior prom, the character addresses the audience by her reflections on the poetics of impermanence and quotidian life.
An experimental film that speaks to the ever-shifting nature of humanity and community. Through poetry, re-purposed archival footage and digital animation, solYchaski challenges our current understanding of what it means to be a human.
Through family pictures, a voice over tells the story of a family, their conflicts, and the experience of migration.
Social Economies uses the tradition of magical realism to present a mind-bending narrative on the tensions and longings that emerge from class dynamics in Colombia, as seen through the eyes of three women of varying social positions.
This visual statement reflects on the way language gaps and time are the main components of storytelling—and depicts the sensation of forgetting the mother tongue.
Shot in Iceland, this science fiction film about losing and becoming explores the philosophical condition of two lost humans in what appears to be a rejuvenating planet.
This short documentary is a collaboration with members of the Guajajara nation, one of the largest indigenous groups in Brazil, on the rehearsal for their annual Honey Celebration, which honors the Guajajara myth of the creation of the night.