Event

La Voz de los Silenciados

OCTOBER 3 AT 8PM
La Voz de los Silenciados
(Maximón Monihan, 2013, 80 min)

Described as "Chaplin meets Eraserhead," La Voz de los Silenciados is truly modern silent film. Olga, a deaf teenager, is coaxed from her home in Guatemala to travel to New York City, ostensibly to attend a Christian school for the deaf. Rather than being greeted by a charitable school, however, she's enslaved in an international criminal scheme and forced to beg on the subway. Olga uses courage, cunning, and even humor to face an unimaginable nightmare-on-loop that ravages the audience.

Based on the true story of modern day slavery in the heart of the American metropolis, LVDLS deftly weaves together social critique, silent film aesthetics, magical realist humor and surreality, coupled with a low frequency soundscape so grippingly immersive that it merits its own place in the history of sound cinema.