screening a work in progress with anthropologist & filmmaker ALEX FATTAL

At Slought in Philadelphia, Alex Fattal presented a preview of a current work in progress and then sat down with CEE Postdoctoral Fellow Alissa Jordan to discuss his  experimentations in ethnographic filmmaking with ex-combatants in Columbia.

This work in progress follows the oneiric journey through Alex Javier’s life as a former FARC guerrilla, and how that life leads to to a reckoning with the devil inside of him. He tells his story of war and its legacy inside of a truck transformed into a camera obscura, a space where dreams suffuse with reality and a life in limbo is illuminated.