Gender, Sexuality, and
Desire in Recent Films from Spain and Latin America
Sponsored by Latin
American and Latino/a Studies, the Center for Student Diversity, the
College of Liberal Arts, the Foreign Languages Department
Presented as part of The Spanish Film Club series with
the support of Pragda, the Secretary of State for Culture of Spain, and
its Program for Cultural Cooperation with United States' Universities
Name of Film: Chico y Rita
Time: Thursday, September 13,
6:30 pm
Location: CLA 3110
Brief Description: Chico y Rita
is an animated feature-length film set against the backdrops of Havana,
New York City, Las Vegas, Hollywood, and Paris in the 1940s and 1950s.
Chico is a young piano player with big dreams and Rita is a beautiful
singer with an extraordinary voice. Music and romantic desire unite
them, but their journey—in the tradition of the bolero—brings heartache
and torment.
Name of Film: El Niño Pez
Time: Wednesday, September 19,
6:30 pm
Location: CLA 2310
Brief Description: El Niño Pez,
filmed in Buenos Aires and Paraguay, tells the love story of Lala and
her maid Ailín. Their passionate and desperate romantic relationship
highlights the intricacies of loving someone from an extremely different
social background. Unable to find a place for their love in the classist
world they live in, they are pushed to the extreme. This supernatural
tale incorporates melodrama and fantasy.
Name
of Film: Lope
Time: Thursday, September 27,
6:30 pm
Location: CLA 3110
Brief
Description:
Set during Spain’s early Golden Age of theatre,
Lope looks at the life of Lope
de Vega. One of Spain’s most popular playwrights during the late
sixteenth/early seventeenth century, Lope was also a prolific poet. In
this entertaining and romantic look at his struggles to establish
himself, we encounter a man ruled by his passions and eviscerating wit.
Name of Film: A
Contracorriente
Time: Wednesday,
October 3, 6:30 pm
Location: CLA 2310
Brief
Description:A
Contracorriente
is an unusual ghost story set on the Peruvian seaside where a fisherman
struggles to reconcile his devotion to his male lover within the town’s
rigid and hetero-normative traditions.
Name of Film: La Yuma
Time: Thursday, October 11, 6:30
pm
Location: CLA 3110
Brief Description: La Yuma is the first full-length
fiction film to emerge from Nicaragua in the past two decades. Yuma, a
strong-willed and rebellious young woman, dreams of being a boxer as she
struggles to escape the barrios of Managua.
Name of Event: Las Krudas:
To Be Lesbian, Feminist, and Hip-Hop in Cuba!
Time: Wednesday, September 12,
12 to 1:30 pm
Location: Freedom Square (Rain
location ***)
Brief Description of
Event:
Hip-hop music arrived in Cuba via radio and television
broadcasts from Miami. During the 1980s, hip-hop culture in Cuba was
mainly centered around break-dancing. By the 1990s, with the collapse of
the Soviet Union and the onset of the “Special Period,” young “raperos”
were seeking ways to express their frustrations. Las Krudas is a Cuban
hip-hop duo featuring performing artists Odaymara Cuesta and Olivia
Prendes. Their feminist perspective challenges machismo and celebrates
the power and beauty of women of color.
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