This Saturday, March 2, at 6:00pm at MoMA, the Puerto Rico–based artist cooperative Sociedad del Tiempo Libre (STL) presents “Arriba está el mar,” a series of short films by Caribbean filmmakers. This event is part of Doc Fortnight 2024: MoMA’s Festival of International Nonfiction Film and Media. The directors will be in conversation with STL’s Beatriz Santiago Muñoz and Pablo Guardiola after the screening. This program takes place at MoMA, Floor T2/T1, The Roy and Niuta Titus Theater 2.
Throughout the Caribbean region, the sea is visible when you climb toward the sky, up in the mountains. All the works in this screening, guest curated by the Puerto Rico–based artist cooperative Sociedad del Tiempo Libre, have a link to the expansive and expanded, multifaceted Caribbean and move through iconic scenes—carnival, bucolic tropical landscape, exuberant musical city—in which an event or a specific history unfolds through gesture and voice. The program, featuring short films by Juan Carlos Alom, Miryam Charles, Joiri Minaya, Ricardo Ariel Toribio, Luis Arnías, Laura Sofía Pérez, and Minia Biabiany, will be presented by STL’s Beatriz Santiago Muñoz and Pablo Guardiola, with select filmmakers present.
Bisagras. 2024. Senegal/Brazil. Directed by Luis Arnías. No dialogue. 18 min. World premiere
The Promise of Progress. 2023. Dominican Republic. Directed by Joiri Minaya. In Spanish; English subtitles. 7 min. North American premiere
Tous le jours de mai (All the Days of May). 2023. Canada. Directed by Miryam Charles. In Creole, French; English subtitles. 7 min.
Learning from the White Birds. 2021. Guadeloupe. Directed by Minia Biabiany. 6 min. New York premiere
How to Love a Place so the Children Will Love Their Land. 2023. Puerto Rico. Directed by Laura Sofía Pérez. In Spanish; English subtitles. 12 min
Habana Solo. 2000. Cuba. Directed by Juan Carlos Alom. No dialogue. 15 min. 16mm transferred to digital video. New York premiere
Rebeca. 2023. Dominican Republic. Directed by Ricardo Ariel Toribio. In Spanish; English subtitles. 11 min. World premiere.
For more information, see https://www.moma.org/calendar/events/9407
This Saturday, March 2, at 6:00pm at MoMA, the Puerto Rico–based artist cooperative Sociedad del Tiempo Libre (STL) presents “Arriba está el mar,” a series of short films by Caribbean filmmakers. This event is part of Doc Fortnight 2024: MoMA’s Festival of International Nonfiction Film and Media. The directors will be in conversation with STL’s
