Territorio

Part lush travelogue, part dreamlike meditation on geography and space, artist and filmmaker Alexandra Cuesta takes us on an unforgettable exploration of the geography and people of her native Ecuador in “Territorio.” She follows the path taken by French avant garde poet Henri Michaux in 1927, as recounted in his “Ecuador: A Travel Journal.” As Cuesta retraces Michaux’s steps, she points her camera toward her own country for the first time, encountering Ecuador’s rich and ever-varying terrain and people as things both elusively foreign and intimately familiar. Beginning with an approach by sea, and continuing across the mountains before descending into the jungle, this spectacular, atmospheric journey through Ecuador is a temporal experience rooted in the soul-revealing portraits she creates of people she meets along the way