{"id":97,"date":"2008-10-24T01:42:29","date_gmt":"2008-10-24T08:42:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.latinofilmfestival.org\/2008\/?p=97"},"modified":"2008-10-24T22:23:35","modified_gmt":"2008-10-25T05:23:35","slug":"entre-los-muertos-among-the-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.latinofilmfestival.org\/2008\/?p=97","title":{"rendered":"Entre los muertos \/ Among the Dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Title: <\/strong>Entre los muertos \/ Among the Dead<br \/>\n<strong>Location: <\/strong>Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts<br \/>\n<strong>Tickets: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brownpapertickets.com\/event\/46999\" target=\"_blanck\">Click here<\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Description: <\/strong>dir. Jorge Dalton, 2004, Cuba \/ El Salvador, 60 min.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Start Time: <\/strong>20:30<br \/>\n<strong>Date: <\/strong>2008-11-20<br \/>\n<strong>End Time: <\/strong>21:30<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latinofilmfestival.org\/2008\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/entrlosmuertos.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-255\" title=\"entrlosmuertos\" src=\"http:\/\/www.latinofilmfestival.org\/2008\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/entrlosmuertos.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"165\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Though San Salvador is a locus of violence\u00e2\u20ac\u201dsuffering from constant earthquakes, devastating street crime and the ripple effects of decades-long war\u00e2\u20ac\u201dfilmmaker Jorge Dalton explores the ways in which its citizens cope. This excellent documentary is both enlightening and macabre, eerily funny and gut-wrenchingly sad. Its main theme is Death\u00e2\u20ac\u201dbut how we deal with death is a matter of perspective. There are communities living in cemeteries where the tombstones act as playgrounds; \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcfunerary brokers\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 who scout dead bodies for a commission; families who choose to bury their kin in their back yard; emotional Mara Salvadotrucha funerals and festive celebrations of Day of the Dead. With creative camerawork and photography, Dalton presents a panorama that examines the economy of death, the value of life and how San Salvadoreans, precisely because of their historical roots to violence, walk a fine line between normalizing and desensitizing death.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>San Salvador es un centro de violencia\u00e2\u20ac\u201dsufriendo de constantes temblors, devastadora delincuencia y los efectos de decadas de guerra. Jorge Dalton explora como sus ciudadanos lidian con esta dificil realidad. Este originalisimo documental es a la vez macabro y divertido y simultaneamente alegra y entristece. Su tema es \u00e2\u20ac\u0153la muerte\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, pero como cada quien la enfrenta es cuestion de perspectiva. Hay comunidades que viven en cementerios donde las lapidas actuan como patios de recreo, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153 negociantes funerarios\u00e2\u20ac\u009d que buscan cadaveres por comision; familias que eligen enterrar a sus familiares en los patios de sus casas; dramaticos funerales\u00c2\u00a0 de la Mara Salvatrucha y alegres celebraciones del Dia de los Muertos. Con una direccion y fotografia muy creativas, Dalton presenta un panorama que examina la economia de la muerte, el valor de la vida y como los sansalvadorenos, precisamente por sus lazos historicos con la violencia, titubean entre una vision normalizada pero insensible de la muerte.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Title: Entre los muertos \/ Among the Dead Location: Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts Tickets: Click here Description: dir. Jorge Dalton, 2004, Cuba \/ El Salvador, 60 min. Start Time: 20:30 Date: 2008-11-20 End Time: 21:30 \u00c2\u00a0 Though San Salvador is a locus of violence\u00e2\u20ac\u201dsuffering from constant earthquakes, devastating street crime and the ripple [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14,33,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.latinofilmfestival.org\/2008\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.latinofilmfestival.org\/2008\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.latinofilmfestival.org\/2008\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.latinofilmfestival.org\/2008\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.latinofilmfestival.org\/2008\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=97"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.latinofilmfestival.org\/2008\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":257,"href":"http:\/\/www.latinofilmfestival.org\/2008\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions\/257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.latinofilmfestival.org\/2008\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=97"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.latinofilmfestival.org\/2008\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=97"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.latinofilmfestival.org\/2008\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=97"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}