En Parábola/Conversations on Tragedy opened at Amant Arts, NYC March - June 2024.
3-channel video installation with sound | 60 minutes
4K, 16mm film, 8mm film
(Featured frames filmed by Mollie Moore)
The film reassembles the Greek myth Antigone in collaboration with a cast of non-professional actors who reside in Puerto Rico and in New York City’s Puerto Rican diasporic community. Developed through a multi-year process of collaborative theatrical rehearsal and experimental filmmaking, the work emerged through the cast’s revising, re-writing, and performing of the myth of Antigone inspired by their lived and inherited experiences of migration and belonging.
Taking the form of a multichannel film installation and a live performance series, En Parábola seeks to connect these communities after decades of geographical fragmentation, colonial erasure, dispossession, and cumulative environmental, economic, and political tragedies. This exhibition presents the first chapter of En Parábola, a multichannel film that chronicles the New York City–based cast’s reimagining of the myth of Antigone from their own perspectives.
En Parábola/Conversations on Tragedy (Part I)
Conceived and Directed Natalia Lassalle-Morillo
Co-Devised and Co-authored with the Cast/Co-ideado y Co-escrito con el elenco:
Erica Ballester
Emma Suárez-Báez
Nina Lucía Rodríguez
Raquel Rodríguez
Director of Photography | Cinematografía Mollie Moore, Laura Sofía Pérez and Natalia Lassalle-Morillo
Editor | Edición Natalia Lassalle-Morillo & Laura Sofía Pérez
Producer|Producción Natalia Lassalle-Morillo, Xiaoyue Zhang, CAVAS Films (Nicolas Santa and Carlos Ayala)
