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Latin American Film Festival: Sofía Gallisá Muriente
Thursday, September 18, 7 pm
Free or suggested donation
Squeaky Wheel is excited to host the Latin American Film Festival with artist and filmmaker Sofía Gallisá Muriente! Muriente, a visual artist from San Juan, Puerto Rico, will showcase her films that have been shown at venues such as the Museum of Modern Art, the Smithsonian Museum, and the Whitney Museum. She will screen her film Celaje (2020) . Ms. Muriente will take part in a conversation and Q&A following the screening, including clips from her other short films such as Foreign in a Domestic Sense (co-directed with Natalia Lassalle-Morillo, 2021). You can watch a profile of Ms. Muriente here. The 2025 Latin American Film Festival is organized by the University at Buffalo Department of Romance Languages and Literatures and CAS Office for Diversity, Equity, and Belonging and is a three-night celebration of Latin American cinema! Each evening will feature powerful films that highlight the Latin American diaspora through people’s lives, histories, and cultures. For more information, see the flyer here or contact Donte McFadden, CAS Unit Diversity Officer at dontemcf@buffalo.edu.
Attendees: Please note that you cannot enter Tri-Main Center after 7:30 pm. Squeaky Wheel is located in Suite 310 of Tri-Main Center. Take the elevator to the third floor, and head left. Click here to see parking, transportation, and accessibility information.
Celaje (Cloudscape)
16mm and Super8 film with various treatments, 41min, 2020
Celaje (Cloudscape) oscillates between intimate chronicle, dream and historical document. Combining images in Super 8 and 16mm, hand development techniques and original music by José Iván Lebrón Moreira, the piece weaves together en elegy to the death of the colonial project and the sedimentation of disasters in Puerto Rico. Memories move around like clouds, images rot and age, and the traces of the process are visible on the film and in the country, like ghosts.
It is the third and final part of Assimilate & Destroy, a series of works that examine the relationship between climate and memory in the tropics, where nature imposes impermanence.
Biography of the artist
Sofía Gallisá Muriente (b. 1986, San Juan, Puerto Rico) is a visual artist whose practice claims the freedom of historical agency, proposing mechanisms for remembering and reimagining. Her works employ text, image and archive as medium and subject, exploring their poetics and politics. Sofía has been a fellow of the Cisneros Institute at MoMA, Smithsonian Institute, Puerto Rican Arts Initiative, US LatinX Art Forum and others. Her work has been recently exhibited in Documenta Fifteen, MoMA, the Whitney Museum, the Smithsonian Design Triennial, MoCA TAipei, Savvy Contemporary, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico, and galleries such as Proxyco, El Kilómetro and Embajada. She has participated in artistic residencies with the Vieques Historical Archive (Puerto Rico), Alice Yard (Trinidad & Tobago), Headlands Center for the Arts (California), FAARA (Uruguay), and Fonderie Darling (Montreal), among others. From 2014 to 2020, she co-directed the artist-run organization Beta-Local in San Juan. She was invited to curate the exhibition In Dispersion at VisArts Maryland in 2022, featuring image-based works from Puerto Rican artists negotiating diasporic experiences throughout the world. In 2023, she published the artist book Observatorio de lagunas: notas de campo with Editorial Educación Emergente. She lives and works in Puerto Rico and is currently a United States Artist Fellow (2024) and Trellis Art Fund Milestone grantee (2025).
