EN PARÁBOLA/CONVERSATIONS ON TRAGEDY (PART I)

Saturday, May 31st, 2025 -
3:30PM

By: Natalia Lassalle-Morillo

  • Country: Puerto Rico
  • Language: English and Spanish w/English Subs
  • Duration: 63 mins
  • Year: 2024
  • Genre: Non-Fiction

SYNOPSIS

En Parábola/Conversations on Tragedy (Part I) is a reassemblage of the Greek myth of Antigone in collaboration with a cast of non-professional actors who reside 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 multi-channel film, En Parábola/Conversations on Tragedy (Part I) seeks to connect these communities after decades of geographical fragmentation, colonial erasure, dispossession, and cumulative environmental, economic, and political tragedies.

A Q+A with Natalia Lassalle-Morillo will follow the screening.