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At the Edge Of The World: The Cinema of Lisandro Alonso
November 11-20
Link to excellent press resource on Lisandro Alonso
Argentine director Lisandro Alonso's mesmerizing, enigmatic cinema is a buried treasure waiting to be discovered. Strangely, this recently crowned giant of world cinema with four films under his belt has never shown a film in Seattle. It is our great pleasure to introduce the work of one of world cinema's latest masters.
Lisandro Alonso is a fascinating figure, who probably thinks more about form than any other narrative filmmaker his age. His attempts at overall unity in his work are impressive if not fearsome; his three films, La Libertad (2001), Los Muertos (2004) and Liverpool (2008), constitute one of the most notable trilogies in contemporary film. Alonso creates an evocatively atemporal and even otherworldly experience with the depiction of lone men, wandering though landscapes at once beautiful and isolated. Alonso's remaining film, Fantasma (2006), works as a curious comment on the first two. In it, the lead actors of his first two features wander through a building looking for a screening of Los Muertos. These four features make up one of contemporary cinema's richest debuts in recent memory.
Join us as we welcome Lisandro Alonso to the cinema where he'll conduct a master class, and introduce the premiere screenings of all four of his wondrous features.
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