En Parábola/Conversations on Tragedy opened at Amant Arts, NYC March - June 2024.
(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 by 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)
Assistant Director |Asistente de Dirección: Jorge Sánchez
Sound Design and Mixing | Diseño Sonoro y Mezcla: José Iván Lebrón Moreira
Color Correcting | Corección de Color: Oswaldo Colón Ortíz
Sound Operator | Operador de Sonido: Eduardo Calero, Maxime Robillard, Natalia Lassalle-Morillo
Additional Camera | Cámara Adicional: Jenica Heintzelman, Carlos Ayala, Pablo Calderón Santiago, Xiaoyue Zhang
16 mm Developing and Digitization | 16mm Revelado y Digitalización: CineLab; Negativland
Dramaturg/Dramaturgia: Amandla Colón, Elisa Peebles, Mireya Lucio
Production Assistants/Asistentes de Producción: Verónica Mojica, Sean Morillo, Amandla Colón, Mario Ruben Carrión, Laura Isabel Tropi
Movement advisor | Asesora de Movimiento: Sophia Treanor
Performance Advisor | Asesora de Performance: Kairiana Nuñez Santaliz
Translation: Amandla Colón and Natalia Lassalle-Morillo
“Significant Others”: Jorge Sánchez, Xiaoyue Zhang, Génesis Báez, Sophia Treanor, Pablo Calderón Santiago, Yara Travieso
Design by Luis Vázquez O’Neill
