Free (donations welcome) / Entrada libre (agradecemos sus donaciones)

In Spanish with English subtitles

Presented by the Lit & Luz Festival and the National Museum of Mexican Art co-sponsored by Marz Brewery and S.A.C.R.E.D. Mezcal

The Lit & Luz Festival and the National Museum of Mexican Art invite you to join us for a special film screening of PIERDETE ENTRE LOS MUERTOS / DROWN AMONG THE DEAD (2018, 62-minutes, Spanish with English subtitles) an Existential Drama by Mexican Director and Artist Ruben Gutierrez. 

From the Director: “I am interested in making films that operate as symbolic acts of resistance, that provoke reflections on possible ways to inhabit the world, that speak about the control mechanisms to which we are subjected and about our own mental prisons. My intention is to promote a reflection about what happens outside of the cinematic canvas. The final result is some kind of rarefied fiction that appropriates fragments of other discourses in order to invite the spectator to remember.”

Museum doors open at 5:30 p.m. with the film presentation beginning at 6:05 p.m. A bar and concession stand will be available for attendees sponsored by Marz Brewery and S.A.C.R.E.D. Mezcal. After the screening, Gutiérrez will be joined by Alivé Piliado, Curatorial Associate at the National Museum of Mexican Art , and Esteban King, Lit & Luz Artistic Director, for a reflection on the film’s themes, production, and creative direction.

Participants

Rubén Gutiérrez

Alivé Piliado-Santana

Esteban King