Synopsis
Taking Roberto Bolaño’s epic novel 2666 as its starting and departure point, Santa Teresa and Other Stories is a radically innovative hybrid docu-fiction, a lyrical portrait of the fictitious border city of Santa Teresa. With a backdrop of extreme depictions of violence in the city, the film dovetails into a spectral trail of visions and dreams of the town, a heterogeneous testimony that runs across timeframes and blurs the line between fiction and reality, naturalistic beauty and a domineering sense of doom. Director Nelson Carlo De Los Santos Arias provides new aesthetic strategies that affirm the poetics of cinema as a political tool. In Santa Teresa, the inertia and weight of a violent present is made to stutter, paving the way to mysterious intrigue of various degrees in its drive to understand and move forward with renewed perspectives. Santa Teresa and Other Stories will be screened with I Can Only Show You The Color. Total duration is 90 minutes.