Natalia Lassalle-Morillo (Bayamón, Puerto Rico) is an artist and director whose research-based practice reconstructs memory and history through a transdisciplinary and participatory approach. Merging theatrical performance, experimental film, and installation, her work decentralizes canonical and colonial narratives through collaborations with non-professional performers, artists and researchers. Natalia’s film La Ruta (2018) was a THFF2018 selection. Photo by Xiaoyue Zhang.
En Parábola/Conversations on Tragedy (Part I) is Co-Authored and Co-Devised with Erica Balleste, Emma Suárez-Báez, Nina Lucía Rodríguez, and Raquel Rodríguez.
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.
