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‘Eldorado XXI’ Is an Unpredictable Experiment in Style from the Top of the World

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Christopher Campbell
Mar 23, 2016
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Eldorado XXI

Salomé Lamas makes unpredictable films. This is true on a nearly microscopic level, down to the intricacies of sound and editing. One never knows how long a shot will last, and the resulting tension dominates many of her images. Sounds come and go, often in a disconnected or even adversarial relationship with what appears on screen. Her films would rese…

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