Dress Rehearsal for Utopia (Ensayo final para Utopía)
Dress Rehearsal for Utopia (Ensayo final para Utopía)
As his father lies dying in a hospital room in Venezuela, the filmmaker's thoughts travel to Mozambique. Images of dance and revolution, some retrieved from archival footage, some newly shot, conjure up a spectral alternate reality where human figures take part in a cascade of excited movements.