Image and script: A reading of the documentaries "Donde" and the "Ciudad perdida" by Eduardo Lalo
Published 2019-01-17 — Updated on 2023-01-13
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Keywords
- Caribean,
- city,
- globalization,
- Lalo,
- videoproductions
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Abstract
This essay is an analysis of two video productions by Puerto Rican writer Eduardo Lalo (1960),
Donde and La ciudad perdida and how they represent the global city or global cities of the Puerto
Rican archipelago. If in Donde there is an autobiographical element, where we look at the impossibilities
of return, in La ciudad perdida Lalo honors the diverse cityscapes of San Juan. Videometraje
a term coined by Lalo reveals a complex way of looking. In both productions, the writer’s exile,
the "insilio" (internal exile) join together with the ruins of the global present to write in a creative
fashion, diverse and intimate geographies of the cityscape.