PHLAFF Week Cuatro— 6/20 at PhillyCAM!
Are you ready to fall into the world of magical realism? Excited to watch more of our wonderful selections of shorts? Catch us PhillyCAM on Thursday, June 20th. If you want to know more about media in Philly, get to know PhillyCAM!
Check out what we’ll be screening below. We hope to see you there!
LOS SHORTS — Magical realism
Ceiba Y Sus Raíces Taínas
Disaster strikes the island of Puerto Rico as Guabancex, Spirit of Chaos, leads a Hurricane. Ceiba, a disabled young woman in a wheelchair, calls upon the Spirit of Protection, Yúcahu, to prevent catastrophic doom. Due to his incapability to do so, Ceiba must stop the storm from destroying her beautiful island.
Bajo La Tierra
Alta California, 1845. Alma is a young Mexican woman living in an isolated ranch with her mother Josefa. A skilled pottery maker looking to escape poverty, Alma’s work has become her only priority in life. After learning that Josefa tragically passed away while she was too busy
working, Alma becomes sick with the guilt of her loss. She takes on an obsessive amount of work to drown out the guilt, which leads to a serious injury. Suddenly, Alma’s world is flipped upside down when a series of supernatural disturbances begin to test her sanity. No matter how many pots she makes, she always wakes to find her pieces ruined. It almost seems as if the earth is swallowing her entire home- including her. Even stranger, she begins to hear the voice of her mother around the empty home. Will Alma manage to get a hold of her life or lose herself trying?
In Wonderland
After being granted asylum in the U.S., an 8-year-old Mexican girl rejects her new family and escapes into the fantasy world of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, hoping to reunite with her father on the other side.
As her imagination brings to life a magical rabbit hole, she follows it down in hopes of reuniting with her father on the other side. Will Nina come to terms with the truth of her past and finally embrace the adventure of a new home
LOS SHORTS
Mi Coro (My Crew)
Set in a surreal, hyperbolic reality, "Mi Coro" features interviews with a variety of Latin American Vogue performers. They detail their failed attempts at communication with a new alien species known as the cis-heterosexuals, and the different ways this has resulted in ostracization and violence for them. With the help of a dear friend and anthropologist, they come to the conclusion that Voguing has been the tool they needed to communicate with this alien species all along. We follow them on their journey of practicing said dance form in the lead up to a grand ball. The communication with the alien species has some unexpected shifts, and the dancers themselves transform in the process.
A Seismic Silence
For geology, seismic silence determines the time between two earthquakes: the longer the silence, the more powerful the next tremor is expected to be. This film remains in that interval, between dream and reality. A series of personal diaries intersects with those of a 20th century German physicist. Between Berlin and Buenos Aires, an overlapping of times and spaces is established; a collaboration with the dead ones.
