CUNY Academic Commons | LAURA ORTIZ | Activity https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/members/lauraohernz/activity/ Activity feed for LAURA ORTIZ. Sat, 01 Jan 2050 18:00:18 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en 30 hourly 2 1b3a33a6d87de126f939c8b3529e9d97 LAURA ORTIZ (SHE/HER) commented on the post, The Pearl Button, on the site Selected Directors: New Latin American Cinema https://film23104new.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2025/05/05/the-pearl-button-2/#comment-2355 Tue, 06 May 2025 04:22:29 -0400 Patricio Guzmán’s The Pearl Button serves as a poetic and political reflection on the legacy of colonialism in Chile, particularly the erasure of Indigenous Patagonian cultures. Through water as a central me […]

]]> 58fd6a72048ca20c726c41e605a250b7 LAURA ORTIZ (SHE/HER) commented on the post, Glauber Rocha's Doc Work, on the site Selected Directors: New Latin American Cinema https://film23104new.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2025/03/05/glauber-rochas-doc-work/#comment-2279 Mon, 10 Mar 2025 05:49:36 -0400 Laura Ortiz – Glauber Rocha’s approach to revolutionary and protest cinema during Brazil’s military dictatorship was both innovative and subversive, using allegory, metaphor, and direct confrontation to cha […]

]]> 015a3c2c8e6d68a43d33741a39108add LAURA ORTIZ (SHE/HER) commented on the post, New Latin American Cinema and the ICAIC, on the site Selected Directors: New Latin American Cinema https://film23104new.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2025/01/28/new-latin-american-cinema-and-the-icaic/#comment-2267 Tue, 18 Feb 2025 20:42:54 -0500 Week 3 – De Cierta Manera: A Revolutionary Reflection February 17, 2025 Sara Gómez’s De Cierta Manera is a striking film that blurs the line between fiction and documentary, offering a nuanced exploration of p […]

]]> 13c417c6ed1957d7d6a429bd9e71062c LAURA ORTIZ (SHE/HER) commented on the post, New Latin American Cinema and the ICAIC, on the site Selected Directors: New Latin American Cinema https://film23104new.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2025/01/28/new-latin-american-cinema-and-the-icaic/#comment-2263 Tue, 11 Feb 2025 05:56:24 -0500 Laura Ortiz – Blog Post #2 Sara Gómez’s films explore the complexities of Cuban identity, gender roles, and revolutionary contradictions with a strikingly ahead-of-her-time perspective. Works like Mi Aporte and Gu […]

]]> 6593970ec1e74212ad6de53e02e65adb LAURA ORTIZ (SHE/HER) commented on the post, New Latin American Cinema and the ICAIC, on the site Selected Directors: New Latin American Cinema https://film23104new.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2025/01/28/new-latin-american-cinema-and-the-icaic/#comment-2253 Sun, 02 Feb 2025 00:27:43 -0500 Moving the Archive – Laura Ortiz The concept of moving the archive in Latin American revolutionary cinema is a powerful act of subversion that critiques colonial and neo-colonial narratives embedded in Western […]

]]> 412d7348774e4e0639794e4f456320f3 LAURA ORTIZ (SHE/HER) became a registered member https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/1036563/ Tue, 28 Jan 2025 16:10:28 -0500