Resumen de Domestic Crises, International Opportunities: Trends and Preoccupations in New Venezuelan Cinema
Crisis is the new global norm, or so it would seem at the arthouse cinema. Inrecent years, the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela has become synonymouswith catastrophe. Its struggles with violence, hyperinflation, polarizationand authoritarianism have been well documented in Anglophone media.1From Venezuela,films such asDesde allá(Lorenzo Vigas, 2015) and La familia(Gustavo Rondón, 2016) have attracted much attention with theirmanifestations of thisZeitgeist. Shot in Caracas and funded, in part, by theVenezuelan State, these are both products and depictions of the crises thathave converged on this oil-exporting nation.
