Purgatorio: A Journey Into the Heart of the Border (Purgatorio: Viaje al corazón...

Showings

Dutmers at the Dennos Museum Wed, Jul 30, 2014 3:00 PM
Sponsored by: Susan Zakrzewski
Dutmers at the Dennos Museum Thu, Jul 31, 2014 12:00 PM
Sponsored by: Chuck & Terri Bethea
Dutmers at the Dennos Museum Fri, Aug 1, 2014 9:00 PM
Sponsored by: Pete Woods, Haar & Woods Law Firm, St. Louis, MO
Dutmers at the Dennos Museum Sat, Aug 2, 2014 9:00 PM
Sponsored by: Barb Zupin & Nancy Burmeister
Film Info
Section:Experimental
Release Year:2013
Runtime:80 min.
Rating:NR
Production Country:Mexico
USA
Original Language:English
Spanish
Subtitles:English
Web Site:http://www.rrcinema.com/
Cast/Crew Info
Director:Rodrigo Reyes
Produced by:Rodrigo Reyes
Screenwriter:Hugo Perez
Rodrigo Reyes
Cinematography:Justin Chin
Editing By:Manuel Tsingaris
Music By:Rodrigo Cordera

Description

Winner of the Michael Moore Award for Best Documentary at this year’s Ann Arbor Film Festival, “Purgatorio” captures the brutal beauty of the border and the people caught in its spell, presenting a stunning mosaic of compelling characters and broken landscapes. Rodrigo Reyes’ eye-opening documentary offers a thoughtful portrait of the US-Mexico border with coroners, dog-catchers, police, border-crossers, and others on both sides, tying disparate stories together through stunning imagery that depicts the border as an almost mythic place. Concerned mainly with the human implications of defining and enforcing a line between two nations, “Purgatorio” is a searing, horrifying, at times starkly haunting, and dream-like documentary that reimagines the border as a surreal place where spellbound residents are stuck between perception and reality.