"Oklahoma Mon Amour" Screening at the New Assemblages in Latin America and the Iberian World Film Festival

This film festival celebrates the diverse types of assemblages that can be established between different actors. These assemblages are not mere representations of the world but are productive, generating new territorial organizations, behaviors, expressions, actors, and realities. They are also heterogeneous, encompassing various elements such as humans, animals, things, and ideas. This socio-material perspective breaks down the traditional division between nature and culture. We invite you to watch these movies and consider how we can relate to all that surrounds us and how we are a part of it. Can we think about our new realities in this way? How can this perspective help us better understand the world around us? We invite you to watch these films selected for this festival and consider these questions. The movies chosen for this film festival can be watched online, and one of the movies will be screened on campus, followed by Q&A by the film director.

On-site screening
Oklahoma Mon Amour
Mexico, Oklahoma (USA). 2021. 70 min. 
Director: Carolina Rueda

Day & Time: Tuesday, April 9, 7:00 pm 
Place: Voorhees Hall 105, Rutgers University (71 Hamilton St, New Brunswick, NJ 08901)

Screening on Campus followed by  Q & A with film director Carolina Rueda
Link to Google map (Please add the link for Voorhees Hall)
  
Oklahoma Mon Amour portrays a ruptured family and the quest for its reunion, the journey of two brothers, and the challenges faced by multicultural youth needing to find their true identity and to unveil buried secrets, all of this tinted by the puzzling closeness between Mexico and the U.S. Filmed in black and white and with a non-traditional structure evocative of an earlier cinema from the sixties and seventies, the film also interacts with current world tensions, and presents an unusual approach to the Mexico/U.S dynamics, also showing a cosmopolitan Mexico City seldom seen in cinema. The film has been selected at seven international film festivals and won the Best Female Cinematographer award at the Toronto International Women’s Film Festival and the Best Family Film award at the Silk Road Film Awards in France.