Cine Latino Best of Fest Encores - Watch through Sunday, October 25
Reserve your ticket and start watching through Sunday, October 25. You will have 48 hours to complete once you begin watching.
Access to Cine Latino en casa/At Home is geo-restricted to viewers in Minnesota and a MN billing address is required to purchase a ticket.
Live Q&A Friday, October 16 at 6:30pm.
Watch the recorded Q&A on Facebook
Screening with the short film Pablo.
About Free Color
Playful and intriguing, the rich, color-drenched work of legendary Venezuelan artist Carlos Cruz-Diez is a universe of ideas and emotion: primary colors come alive in vivid chromo-saturated spaces both grand and intimate while other works use dazzling, dizzying lined patterns, their hues morphing in and out of one another to create the illusion of movement and to call forth fundamental questions of what color is, its symbolic value and its place in our personal and collective memory. Yet after a groundbreaking seven-decade career that placed him firmly within the pantheon of all-time greats, and at the tender age of 94, the Master set out to realize what was to be his most ambitious, and sadly his final, project to date: to free color from form, to liberate it from light, narrative and matter itself, over the river Seine in his beloved adopted home city of Paris. Using a treasure trove of home movies, candid interviews and fly-on-the-wall perspective, director Alberto Arvelo (The Liberator) has crafted a lively and touching portrait of an artist as gentleman—of a unique and restless creativity driven by ideas about the role of color in our lives; and a generous and devoted father and grandfather whose practice was always a true family affair, and whose brilliance of mind was equal only to his openness of heart.
Recommended for Ages 10+
Lúdico e intrigante, el trabajo rico y lleno de color del legendario artista venezolano Carlos Cruz-Diez es un universo de ideas y emoción: los colores primarios cobran vida en espacios saturados de luz, patrones de líneas vertiginosas, sus tonalidades se transforman entre sí para crear la ilusión de movimiento y suscitar preguntas fundamentales sobre qué es el color, su valor simbólico y su lugar en nuestra memoria personal y colectiva. Después de una carrera pionera de siete décadas que lo colocó firmemente dentro del panteón de los grandes de todos los tiempos, y a la tierna edad de 94 años, el Maestro se propuso realizar lo que iba a ser su proyecto más ambicioso y, lamentablemente, su último trabajo: liberar al color de la forma, liberarlo de la luz, la narrativa y la materia misma, crear una obra sobre el río Sena en su amada ciudad adoptiva de París. Utilizando maravillosa home-movies y entrevistas a colaboradores y familiares, el director Alberto Arvelo (El Libertador) ha elaborado un retrato vivo y conmovedor del artista, de su creatividad única e inquieta, impulsada por ideas sobre el papel del color en nuestras vidas; pero tambien el retrato de un padre y abuelo devoto cuya práctica siempre fue un verdadero asunto de familia, y cuya brillantez mental solo la igualaba su corazon abierto y generoso.
Director Biography
Alberto Arvelo (Caracas, Venezuela) is a writer, musician and director most well known for his multiple award-winning films A House with a View of the Sea (2001), Cyrano Fernández (2007) and The Liberator (“Libertador”, 2013). He has created a multimedia opera for the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra (La Cantata Criolla) under the musical director of Gustavo Dudamel, starring Helen Hunt and Édgar Ramírez. He is also the founder of the Cine Átomo movement, producing reflective human films with crews of no more than five people.
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In this year when we cannot gather in person, and when you, our valued audience, cannot come to Cine Latino, Cine Latino will come to you - as CINE LATINO AT HOME / EN CASA! Cine Latino, the region’s only showcase of Latin American and Ibero cinema, features a rich tapestry of narrative and documentary films from across the globe from some of the world’s most acclaimed and up-and-coming Spanish- and Portuguese-language filmmakers.