Filmmaker Ana Armengod to Screen Experimental Films

(Fabiola Leon photo)

Armengod is a Mexican multidisciplinary artist born in Mazatlán Sinaloa, currently living in Braddock, Pennsylvania. On this, her first MacDowell Fellowship, Armengod edited footage recently shot in Cuba. Whether in the form of film, visual art, or poetry, she accentuates the overlooked and unimportant, giving magnitude to emotional reactions, history, and the environment, while questioning how these things push us to evolve. On Friday evening, she screened recent shorts that draw on her experience as a formerly undocumented and imprisoned immigrant. As she succinctly puts it, “I’m an avant-garde filmmaker; when thinking of art that speaks about immigration, folks tend to think of bright, colorful banners with monarch butterflies, which are meant to inspire us to break these borders and be free. That is not me.”