Liverpool

See rising director Lisandro Alonso’s breakout film, which Cinema Scope hailed as the best film of 2008.

With Liverpool, Argentine director Lisandro Alonso enters “into the first rank of contemporary filmmakers,” according to Toronto’s eye Weekly. The film follows a solitary sailor on leave in snowy Ushuaia, the southernmost city on Earth, as he journeys to visit his estranged mother. An evocative portrait emerges from the small details and expressive settings that Alonso dispenses and stitches together throughout the film. (84 mins., 35mm)

Tonight’s program begins with 9-11/9-11, a powerful animated film by conceptual artist Mel Chin. (You may know his striking sculpture in the Columbus Museum of Art’s permanent collection, Spirit, a giant barrel balanced on a rope). The short film tells a tale of two cities 28 years apart: New York City on September 11, 2001, and Santiago, Chile, on September 11, 1978, when the Chilean president Salvador Allende was overthrown. (24 mins., video)

Cinema Latino is cosponsored by the Hispanic Chamber of Columbus

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