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THE CITY
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Direction: David Rilker.
Screenplay: David Rilker.
Cinematography: Harlan Bosmajian.
Editing: David Rilker.
Sound: Richard Fleming, Alex Wolfe.
Sets: Ariane Burgess, Roshelle Berliner.
Music : Tony Adzinikolov.
Cast: Ricardo Cuevas, Cipriano Garcia, Jose Rabelo, Silvia Goiz.
Producers: David Rilker, Paul S. Mezey.
Production: ITVS; Echo Lake Productions; North Star Films.
35mm B&W 88'
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The film interweaves four narratives chronicling the immigrant experience in New York. In the first of the four vignettes, "Bricks", a worker paid to gather bricks from an abandoned lot is crushed when a wall collapses. In the second, "Home", a young man newly arrived from Mexico goes to a party and meets a young woman who is, coincidentally, from his neighborhood back home. "Puppeteers" deals with a homeless puppeteer, who has contracted tuberculosis from staying in a shelter. He tries to enrol his beloved little daughter in school, only to be refused, because he can't produce either a phone bill or a rent receipt. The final sequence chronicles the sweatshop Seamstress, who hasn't been paid in weeks, in her struggle to gather $400 to pay for her daughter's hospital treatment back home.
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Biography
Born in Boston, in 1963, he grew up in Belgium and England. A writer, photographer and film director, he has made
several documentaries dealing with sociopolitical themes.
La Ciudad is his first feature film.
Filmography
1988 The Many Faces of Paper (short film documentary)
1990 Roxbury, USA (short film documentary)
1992 La Ciudad (short film)
1998 La Ciudad
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DIARY
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FILM
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SCREENING
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THEATER
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DATE
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THE CITY
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A
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CINE PROVLITA 2
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Friday 19/11 20:30
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THE CITY
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CINE PROVLITA 2
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Sunday 21/11 15:30
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