Los Angeles Filmforum at MOCA Presents Alexandra Cuesta: Territorio

In person: Alexandra CuestaThe experimental films and videos of Ecuadorian filmmaker and visual artist Alexandra Cuesta are poetic documents of people and public spaces. Cuesta’s new-est film,Territorio(2016), is a portrait of the people of Ecuador shot in their environs. Progressing as a series of fragments, the film’s format is derived from the travel journals of avant-garde poet Henri Michaux.Territoriofollows Michaux’s journey from sea to shore to mountains and into the jungle in what Cuesta describes as “a raw elegy to the everyday.”