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Ism, Ism, Ism: Dreams of Suitcases and a Blue Lobster

El dedal de rosas  (Mariana Botey, 1998, Mexico, digital, 13 min)
El dedal de rosas  (Mariana Botey, 1998, Mexico, digital, 13 min)
Cinema
October
11
7 PM

Event Details

Date & Time:

Fri October 11, 2019
7 PM

Location:

The Block Museum of Art
40 Arts Circle Drive
Evanston, IL 60208

Audience:

Free and open to the public

Details:

Dreams of Suitcases and a Blue Lobster 
(Various Artists, 1933-1998, Various Countries, digital, 70 min total)

A program of short films that explore cinema’s oneiric, disturbing, and irrational potential. Filmed in 1954 in a Colombian fishing town, The Blue Lobster anticipates Magical Realism with a tale of a foreign secret agent who is investigating radioactive lobsters. Lost for decades in Chilean archive, La maleta, the first film by celebrated auteur Raúl Ruiz, offers a surreal mix of suitcases and somnambulists. Mariana Botey’s El dedal de rosas, in collaboration with the actor-director-artist Juan José Gurrola, represents an intersection between two generations of Mexico’s avant-garde. 

In person: Ism, Ism, Ism co-curator Jesse Lerner 

Traum (Sueño)
(Horacio Coppola,1933, Argentina, digital, 2 min)

Las ventanas de Salcedo 
(Luís Ernesto Arocha, 1966, Columbia, digital, 6 min) 

La langosta azul (The Blue Lobster)
(Álvaro Cepeda Zamudio and Gabriel García Márquez, 1954, Columbia, digital, 29 min)

La maleta (The Suitcase)
(Raúl Ruiz, 1963-2008, Chile, digital, 20 min) 

El dedal de rosas 
(Mariana Botey, 1998, Mexico, digital, 13 min)

Contact The Block Museum of Art for more information: (847) 491-4000 or email us at block-museum@northwestern.edu