Uncharted Cartographies: Remapping Latin America Through Cinema
Celebrating the 20th anniversary of Cinema Tropical, the leading presenter of Latin American cinema in the United States, BAM presents unique and playful pairings of feature-length and short narrative, documentary, and experimental films that challenge traditional tropes of Latin American culture and politics.
Addressing issues of race, privilege, the indigenous experience, history, domestic service, and narcos, among other topics, Uncharted Cartographies offers novel ways to think about and creatively remap conceptions of Latin America in order to better reflect the often overlooked heterogeneity of the region.
Featuring films from Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Peru, the United States, Paraguay, and Uruguay.
Programmed by Jesse Trussell, BAM Senior Programmer, Film; and Carlos A. Gutiérrez, Executive Director, Cinema Tropical. Special thanks to Cecilia Barrionuevo.
Additional support from the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at New York University.
Leadership support for BAM Access Programs provided by the Jerome L. Greene Foundation.
Leadership support for BAM Film provided by the Ford Foundation and The Thompson Family Foundation
These three films address existential time travel and masculinity, queer and heterosexual.
These three films deconstruct traditional South American narratives as political allegories.
People revolt against a dystopian government's racism. Acclaimed actor Lázaro Ramos directs.
Juliana Antunes' debut feature, paired with André Novais Oliveira's debut fiction film.
Four films investigate the prevailing Latinx narco narrative with humor and self-reflection.
Ancestors of authoritarian presidents of Bolivia and Mexico confront their family legacies.
Border-town Mexican-American debutantes—and a teen romance between two Latinas in East L.A.
Two films explore intimacy and power dynamics between domestic servants and their employers.
Documentaries about family and indigenous roots—and a rural couple waits for their son.