Fausto
New Directors/New Films 2019
March 27 - April 7, 2019
The legend of Faust mingles with local folklore in Andrea Bussmann’s strikingly original shape-shifter, a film that dissolves the boundaries between the visible and the invisible.
Q&As with Andrea Bussmann on April 6 & 7
The legend of Faust mingles with local folklore in Andrea Bussmann’s strikingly original shape-shifter, which dissolves the boundaries between reality and myth, fiction and documentary, and the visible and invisible. Filmed on Mexico’s Oaxacan coast, Bussmann’s film introduces a host of Faustian characters whose interactions effectively exhume a history of colonization marked by magic and oppression alike. Full of aesthetic surprises—textured, low-light cinematography and unexpected combinations of sound and image—Fausto is a rich and beguiling investigation into the role that fiction plays in the construction of history.
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