Film: Las muertes más bellas del mundo

DCP | 2024 | Quique Aviles, Ellie Walton & Edited by Magee McIlvaine | USA & El Salvador | 70 mins | English and Spanish with English subtitles Free admission and open to the public. No registration required. Las muertes más bellas del mundo (The Most Beautiful Deaths in the World) is an award-winning documentary by Quique Avilés and the Yellow House Collective. Visually stunning and deeply personal, the film tells a story of the Salvadoran diaspora’s struggles and humanity through the eyes of artists who created art out of the Salvadoran Civil War. The film follows a poet’s journey to find acceptance and healing through his writing of the poem "Las muertes" and interweaves a collection of Salvadoran-Wachintonian artist portraits: a poet, a photographer, a dancer, and musicians. Collectively, their voices and archival images tell a compelling, intimate, and historically-grounded story of a community resolving trauma and finding identity, salvation, and joy. You can learn more about the film here: https://www.lasmuertesfilm.com/ Sponsored by the department of Spanish & Portuguese and Ethnicity, Race, and Migration.