Arriba está el mar
Febrero 2024

Screening MOMA Film, Doc Fortnight. 

Throughout the Caribbean region, the sea is visible when you climb toward the sky, up in the mountains. All the works in this screening, guest curated by the Puerto Rico–based artist cooperative Sociedad del Tiempo Libre, have a link to the expansive and expanded,multifacetd Caribbean and move through iconic scenes—carnival, bucolic tropical landscape, exuberant musical city—in which an event or a specific history unfolds through gesture and voice. The program, featuring short films by Juan Carlos Alom, Miryam Charles, Joiri Minaya, Ricardo Ariel Toribio, Luis Arnías, Laura Sofía Pérez, and Minia Biabiany, will be presented by STL’s Beatriz Santiago Muñoz and Pablo Guardiola, with select filmmakers present.

-Bisagras. 2024. Senegal/Brazil. Directed by Luis Arnías. No dialogue. 18 min. World premiere

-The Promise of Progress. 2023. Dominican Republic. Directed by Joiri Minaya. In Spanish; English subtitles. 7 min. North American premiere

-Tous le jours de Mai (All the Days of May). 2023. Canada. Directed by Miryam Charles. In Creole, French; English subtitles. 7 min.

-Learning from the White Birds. 2021. Guadeloupe. Directed by Minia Biabiany. 6 min. New York premiere

-How to Love a Place so the Children Will Love Their Land. 2023. Puerto Rico. Directed by Laura Sofía Pérez. In Spanish; English subtitles. 12 min

-Habana Solo. 2000. Cuba. Directed by Juan Carlos Alom. No dialogue. 15 min. 16mm transferred to digital video. New York premiere

-Rebeca. 2023. Dominican Republic. Directed by Ricardo Ariel Toribio. In Spanish; English subtitles. 11 min. World premiere.