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DESCRIPTION:A righteous celebration of the history-making initiatives by our own Alex 
 Mejia to restore crucial films with the Cinemateca Nacional in Guatemala 
 City! Tonight he guides us on a ultra-rare journey through the region’s 
 radical cinema underground, where poets picked up cameras and filmmakers 
 found their voices in verse...from a forgotten ‘40s doc capturing 
 Indigenous political mobilizations for Jacobo Arbenz, through national poet 
 Otto René Castillo’s experimental collaborations in West Berlin exile, 
 to militant writer Eduardo Labarca’s fierce reflections on art and armed 
 struggle. The program showcases the recently digitized Al Cabo del Tiempo 
 (scanned right here at SF State!), in which the radical Taller de Cine 
 collective grapples with defeat through a critical poet’s lens. We’ll 
 witness Anais Taracena’s lyrical video with Indigenous author Rosa 
 Chávez, building toward our centerpiece: Javier Briones’ (in person) 
 sublime meditation on historical memory, told through Maya Achi voices and 
 the ancestral lands that hold their stories. Five films..Decades of 
 resistance..Traditions of political fury becoming cinematic poetry. Tamales 
 de chipilín too! $11\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2025/09/12/18879818.php
SUMMARY:Guatemalan Poet-Filmmakers
LOCATION:992 Valencia Street, San Francisco
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2025/09/12/18879818.php
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