Acropolis Cinema
Bringing experimental, international, and undistributed films to Los Angeles
Bolivar, a Tropical Symphony (Dir. Diego Rísquez, 1979)
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**SCREENING POSTPONED INDEFINITELY DUE TO POOR CONDITION OF DIGITAL MATERIALS. WE APOLOGIZE FOR ANY INCONVENIENCE. TICKETS FULLY REFUNDABLE THROUGH BROWN PAPER TICKETS **
Date: November 15, 2017
Time: 8:00pm
Location: Downtown Independent
Address: 251 S. Main St, Los Angeles, CA. 90012
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Introduction by film scholar Isabel Arredondo
Co-presented by Los Angeles Filmforum
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In the 1980s, the multifaceted artist, painter and filmmaker from Venezuela, Diego Rísquez, undertook the daunting project of a trilogy about the real and mythical histories of the Latin American continent and made his first feature film: Bolivar, Tropical Symphony, which became the first Super 8 film to be selected for the Directors Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival. We screen it in what might be its Los Angeles premiere. (Digital) ~ Presented as part of Ism Ism Ism: Experimental Cinema in Latin America
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With stunningly rich and complex visual images, Rísquez films eschew all dialogue yet present a coherent and critical reinterpretation of Venezuelan history.
Ana M. Lopez, Encyclopedia of Contemporary Latin American and Caribbean Cultures
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Risquez shows an expansive imagination in creating sweeping, sensual, painterly canvases with very few resources: basic equipment and a group of non-professional actors, mainly friends, who take on the roles of emblematic figures of history and myth.
John King, Magical Reels
