Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 7:30 PM to 10:00 PM
2220 Arts + Archives, Los Angeles
Los Angeles Filmforum presents filmmaker Santiago Torres. In person: Santiago Torres, with curator Diego Robles. Full bio & program notes at: https://www.lafilmforum.org/schedule/ ∆ Modernity halted or in-process and in-construction? Is Mexico City expanding or collapsing? The edges of the metropolis perforate the towns around it. Its center is sinking, yet like needles cables, wires, and buildings reach toward the heavens. The films of Santiago Torres observe the urban harmony inherent in the chaos, while also engaging the painful sprawl embedded within its cacophony. An avid cinephile since early in his life, Santiago has been an active agent in the photographic and cinematic community in the city, gradually making his way to UNAM’s University Center for Cinematographic Studies (now ENAC/UNAM), where he studied Documentary Film Directing and Cinematography. The films in this program begin here, in this historic Mexican and Latin American film school, where his meditative audiovisuals usher you into a state of mind that merges the contemplative and transcendental with the mundane and abandoned. His films upon graduating begin an inventory of various sociological-ecological investigations into loneliness, isolation, the way we remember and see the world around us, and how media and cinema find their way as interventions into our consciousness and reality. Please join us for the World Premieres of “Sobre el amor y la soledad” & “Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park”, and the US Premiere of “Habitantes,” “Of Time and Memory”, and “Embodied Knowledge” - and in welcoming Santiago Torres and his films from 2008-2022. \- Notes by Diego Robles ∆ **Santiago Torres** is the Secretary General of the National School of Cinematic Arts at UNAM (ENAC). He holds a Master’s degree in Cultural and Creative Industries from the National Taipei University of Arts and is a graduate of both ENAC and Werner Herzog’s Rogue Film School. His filmmaking practice includes cinematic essays, observational documentaries, and work as a director of photography in film and television.