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Venezuela: Memorias de un futuro perdido
Venezuela is like a beached whale, surrounded by a stunned crowd. No one knows exactly how it got there, yet everyone wants to explain the reasons behind it. What happened to this country that once seemed so full of promise?
Rafael Osío Cabrices…
Aunque me extinga
"A poetic song of migration, uprootedness, and love as resistance against pain and silence. Aunque me extinga is a book written from the perspective of migration, foreignness, and displacement, woven together through desire and love as barricades…
Volveré a mi tierra
"Camino por New York muy lentamente
En un mundo veloz mi paso es lento
No se a dónde van, ni de dónde vienen
Yo se a donde a voy, y de donde vengo
Allí, blanca, la ropa baila inquieta
Solemos saludar volviendo a casa
Cantamos juntos en…
En un mundo veloz mi paso es lento
No se a dónde van, ni de dónde vienen
Yo se a donde a voy, y de donde vengo
Allí, blanca, la ropa baila inquieta
Solemos saludar volviendo a casa
Cantamos juntos en…
The Immigrant Ballet of Buenos Aires (El Ballet Inmigrante de Buenos Aires)
Report on the Immigrant Ballet of Buenos Aires by France 24.
Against the Regime of the Fluent
How long can you hold your breath and follow a string to the bottom of a waterfall? Contra el régimen de lo fluido asks how you would fall knowing you must resist. These poems are mnemonic screenshots of the author’s request for affirmative asylum to…
Argonautas de la octava isla
Actresses: Cristina Martínez and Carolina BelandiaPerformed at: La Escalera de Jacob, Madrid, 2018
*"This is a short-format theatrical proposal born from the intention of bringing to light the issues swept under the rug—cases of human rights…
Molokotov
"The novel, awarded the 2020 Rosario Castellanos International Short Novel Prize, tells the story of Dolores Alcántara, a Venezuelan reporter based in Mexico during pandemic times. To this crisis—which triggers a hurried return to her country—are…
Hopper y el fin del mundo
"They say that in the end, only a single candle will remain, and when its flame goes out, there will be no more light to see. Fire will have vanished from the face of the earth, light will become a great myth, and there will be no eye to see or to…
Figuras
Synopsis
"A single path connects the town to the asylum, but it is no ordinary road. The route consists of numbered squares, and to cross it, one must follow the order and obey the rules. 'Do not step out of your squares.' 'Running is strictly…
Cosmonauta
"Every cosmonaut is, at heart, a castaway. It is enough to imagine that vast expanse we cowardly call outer space—a vastness that resists both our gaze and our imagination. And in the middle of it, place a human body, covered by a second skin as…
Algo habla con mi voz
Winner of the Universidad Central Novel Contest in 2019
*"How does a Venezuelan migrant survive in Bogotá while besieged by depression and the voice of madness, trapped in a fractured marriage, with a child who dries her tears, and whose only source…
Study of the Raft
"In Study of the Raft, Leonora Simonovis's poems weave the outer world of a failed political revolution in her native country, Venezuela, with an inner journey into the memories of migration and exile, of a home long gone, and of family relations,…
Rawayana's Tiny Desk Concert
Songs
High (ft. Apache)
Funky Fiesta
Feriado
Merengue pa'cintura
Dame in break
"This Latinx Heritage Month Tiny Desk is celebrating with an 'El Tiny' takeover, featuring a wide array of artists from all corners of Latinidad.No Venezuelan…
La rara: una comedia con alma
"Lucía turns eighteen surrounded by her lifelong friends and three close figures: her official boyfriend, her true love, and a secret lover. But it is only when she blows out her eighteen candles that she first discovers La Rara.
Little by little,…
Little by little,…
Restitución de la lengua
"What remains beneath the tongue after a conversation? What endures beyond writing that dutifully adheres to grammar, morality, and the aesthetic traditions that shape the poem? It is that negative residue, that newfound force of what refuses to be…
Santiago se va
"Santiago Iribarren is a filmmaker/scientist who one day decides to tell his life story. To do so, he asks his best friend to help him record an autobiographical documentary. On the scheduled day, his friend arrives at the filming location, but…
¡No, tú no!
"Tired of her mother's orders and of watching life pass by from behind the window, Roberta decides to embark on an adventure. As she ventures into the forest, she encounters a pair of monsters who, in order to let her play with them, challenge her…
La desesperanza
"If we had to summarize in a few words what Santiago Acosta presents to us through his verses, we would have to say that we are faced with a formidable tour de force: the paradox of writing about our desperate present without restraints or…
Luces altas, luces de peligro
"Gladys Mendía has tossed into the air the coin she has been minting for fifteen years. This time, the imprint of El cantar de los manglares lands face down, revealing a poetry that is clearer—just as the title, Luces altas luces de peligro (High…
Ojiva / Warhead
"... Dear reader, I confide in you: this warhead isn't just a path strewn with obstacles, but rather a heartfelt farewell—a tribute to cherished memories, to names penned on paper and held close to the heart. It's not a sturdy breakwater; it's more…