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Week 5- Grace Tapia
Our visit to the Hispanic Society Library and Museum was fascinating to me, in part because I had no idea this institution existed in New York, or that it was so close to Boricua College, my mothers alma mater, but because I learned about new aspects of Spanish culture I had not known about. I […]
Grace Tapia Week 3
Watching Las Hurdes Tierra Sin Pan in its entirety was definitely an interesting experience as an audience member, even without knowing the additional context behind the making of the film. However, after watching the animated film on the background of the film, Buñuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles, the film has become something else […]
Weekly Response 4- Grace Tapia
Bunuel’s film The Young One was admittedly a shocking addition to the repertoire of Buñuel for me, based on my previous perceptions of him as a filmmaker and person. The idea of him confronting race relations is not one that I had considered based on the work of his I’ve seen so far. Perhaps this […]
Grace Tapia Week 2
The experience of watching Un chien andalou and L’age d’or one after the other was definitely an enlightening introduction to Buñuel as a surrealist, to say the least. To start, Un chien andalou was such an interesting watch from the very start of the film. The man sharpening his blade to then, rather than predictably […]
