TRINITY COLLEGE PRESENTS:
SOUTHERN DISTRICT [Zona Sur]
Juan Carlos Valdivia / Bolivia / 108 min / 2011 / Spanish and Aymara with English Subtitles
WEDNESDAY, 18 DE SEPTIEMBRE DEL 2013
AT 7:00 PM in the Boyer Auditorium – Life Sciences Center
Guest speakers: Prof. Priscilla Melendez & Tonny Velasco
La Paz’s Zona Sur neighborhood is Bolivia’s most exclusive enclave and has housed the country’s affluent elite for generations. Here, in an adobe-tile-roofed castle, a statuesque matriarch reigns over her spoiled offspring and indigenous servants. Social change, however unwelcome, is on its way. As the mother squabbles with her self-indulgent, oversexed teenage son and clashes with her petulant daughter, her 6-year-old boy wanders the rooftops unsupervised. The scent of impending decline permeates the air, and the threat of aristocratic privileges quickly changing hands heralds a new era in a seemingly interminable class war. Bolivia’s official entry for the Academy® Awards foreign-language film race, this searing portrait of a patrician family in flux eloquently chronicles their final days during a time of intense social change and cogently exposes the bubble of decadence in which they exist.
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ZONA SUR [Southern District]
Juan Carlos Valdivia / Bolivia / 108 min / 2011 / En español y aymara con subtítulos en inglés
MIERCOLES, 18 DE SEPTIEMBRE DEL 2013
A las 7:00 PM en el Auditorio Boyer – Life Sciences Center
Oradores invitados: Prof. Priscilla Melendez y Tonny Velasco
El vecindario Zona Sur de la Paz es la zona más exclusiva, habitada por generaciones de la élite más rica del país. Aquí, en un castillo de tejado de adobe, una matriarca escultural manda sobre sus mimados hijos y sus sirvientes indígenas. El cambio social, aunque inoportuno, está llevándose a cabo. Mientras la madre riñe con su hijo, autocomplaciente y libidinoso, y discute con su caprichosa hija, su pequeño de seis años vaga sin vigilancia por las azoteas. El declive inminente se hace sentir y la amenaza de que los privilegios aristocráticos pronto han de cambiar de manos anuncia una nueva era en una guerra aparentemente interminable. Este punzante retrato de una familia aristocrática en transformación, que es la entrada oficial de Bolivia a la competencia para los Premios de la Academia Cinematográfica por la mejor película en lengua extranjera, relata sus últimos días en un periodo de intenso cambio social y expone de forma contundente la atmósfera de decadencia en la cual vive.
Presented as part of The Spanish Film Club series with the support of Pragda, and the Embassy of Spain in Washington DC, Spain-USA Foundation. Special thanks to the Secretary of State for Culture of Spain.
TRINITY COLLEGE PRESENTS:
THE MAN NEXT DOOR [El Hombre de al Lado]
Mariano Cohn and Gastón Duprat / Argentina / 103 min / 2010 / Spanish with English Subtitles
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 2013
At 7:00 PM in the Boyer Auditorium – Life Sciences Center
Guest speaker: Prof. Ingrid Robyn
In this black comedy, Leonardo (Rafael Spregelburd) is a prestigious designer who lives with his family in a famous house designed by Le Corbusier. Life is seemingly ideal for Leonardo until one day his neighbor Victor (Daniel Aráoz), a boorish used-car salesman, breaks through a common wall to make a window in order to “catch a few rays of sun.” Unfortunately, Victor’s new window looks directly into Leonardo’s living space. As the tension mounts between Leonardo and Victor, the film explores the complex relationships between class differences, social barriers, and right and wrong.
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EL HOMBRE DE AL LADO [The Man Next Door]
Mariano Cohn y Gastón Duprat / Argentina / 103 min / 2010 / En español con subtítulos en inglés
MIERCOLES, 11 DE SEPTIEMBRE DEL 2013
A las 7:00 PM en el Auditorio Boyer – Life Sciences Center
Orador invitado: Prof. Ingrid Robyn
En esta comedia negra, Leonardo (Rafael Spregelburd) es un diseñador de prestigio que vive con su familia en una famosa casa diseñada por Le Corbusier. La vida le parece ideal a Leonardo hasta que un día su vecino Víctor (Daniel Aráoz), un rudo vendedor de autos usados, rompe una pared para poner una ventana y “atrapar unos rayitos de sol.” Desafortunadamente, la nueva ventana de Víctor tiene vista a la sala de estar de Leonardo. Conforme va escalando la tensión entre Leonardo y Víctor, la película explora las complejas relaciones entre las diferencias de clase, las barreras sociales, y lo que está bien o mal.
Thanks to the Center for Urban and Global Studies Arts Initiative at Trinity College and the Spanish Film Club by PRAGDA we are able to bring you this fall the Latin American & Iberian Film Festival.
We are very excited about the film selection for this year and hope to see you there. All films have English subtitles and are free and open to all.
Here is a link to the film summaries:
Written by Nana Owusu-Agyemang
Willimantic, Conn. ¬¬- Eastern Connecticut State University will host the chamber music theatre group Core Ensemble for a theatrical performance of the production, “Tres Vidas” (Three Lives) at 7 p. m. on Nov. 1 in Shafer Auditorium. The public is invited. Admission is free. Shafer Auditorium is in Shafer Hall, located at Valley and High Streets in Willimantic.
The Core Ensemble includes Tahirah Whittington on cello; Cyrus von Hochstetter on piano; and Michael Parola on percussion, accompanied by actress Roseanne Almanzar.
“Tres Vidas” celebrates the lives of three legendary Latin American women: Mexican painter Frida Kahlo; Salvadoran peasant activist Rufina Amaya; and Argentine poet Alfonsina Storni. The play involves music ranging from traditional Mexican folk and Argentine tango songs sung in Spanish to instrumental works by composers such as Astor Piazzolla and Osvaldo Golijov. Almanzar, who will portray the three legendary Latinas, portrays multiple characters while interacting with the onstage musical trio of cello, piano and percussion.
With storylines including Frida Kahlo’s dramatic and passionate relationship with painter Diego Rivera, Rufina Amaya’s survival of the massacre at El Mozote and Alfonsina Storni’s lifelong challenges as Argentina’s first great feminist poet, “Tres Vidas” presents dramatic situations, timeless in their emotional appeal and connection to audiences across all gender and ethnic spectrums.
Written by Chilean poet/writer Marjorie Agosin, “Tres Vidas” offers powerful portrayals of each woman, and includes the singing of traditional Mexican folk songs, as well as Argentinean popular and tango songs made famous by Mercedes Sosa and Carlos Gardel. Additional music by Astor Piazzolla, Orlando Garcia, Pablo Ortiz, Alice Gomez, Carlos Sanchez-Gutierrez, Michael DeMurga and Osvaldo Golijov round out the musical score.
The Core Ensemble has toured in Australia, England, Russia, Ukraine, the Caribbean and across the United States. “Tres Vidas” will tour the United States during Hispanic Heritage Month, performing in California, Washington, Arizona, Georgia, Florida, Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania, Missouri, Illinois, Connecticut and Maine. It receives support from the National Endowment for the Arts; State of Florida; the U.S. State Department; Florida State Division of Cultural Affairs; A.D. Henderson Foundation; the Florida Humanities Council; and the Palm Beach County Cultural Council.
For more information, please go to http://www.easternct.edu/mt-static/press_releases/2012/10/eastern-to-host-core-ensemble-for-tres-vidas-performance.html, call Ricardo Perez at (860) 465-0191 or e-mail: perezr@easternct.edu.