Surrealist Film
Surrealist cinema sought to break with the conventional linear narrative style in favor of chance events and a world of the subconscious. This penetrating program featuring Alan Williams, author of Republic of Images: A History of French Filmmaking,...
Regionalism and Indigenism
The literature of Latin America has always defied homogeneity—and the first decades of the 20th century were no exception. This program studies artistic responses to Modernismo that accompanied a deepening appreciation of local cultural currents f...
Narrating modernity: writers of the mid-20th century
The mid-20th century was an era of large-scale and often tragically violent political shifts which completely changed the face of Latin American life - and art. As this program demonstrates, the rise of military dictatorships and authoritarian regim...