Acting
From the flickering screens of Hollywood horror, to the haunted cane fields of colonial Haiti, Black Zombie unearths the buried origins of the zombie, reclaiming it as a symbol of survival and spiritual resistance.
Liborio is a peasant who disappears in a hurricane and returns as a prophet. He says he’s been given a mission: to bring the good and take away the evil, curing the sick and teaching by example. People begin to congregate by his side and they move to the mountains to have total freedom and develop his dream of an independent community. Everything changes when the invading US Marines wants to disarm and disband the community. Liborio wants to avoid a confrontation but they know they can't run forever.
Preparing for a role, an actress holds conversations with pregnant young girls. Throughout the process, the girls lay out the stories of their own lives on camera, changing the course of the production of the film.
Leo, a 26-year-old Dominican screenwriter, is in a session with his psychiatrist. Just as the psychiatrist is about to give Leo the answer he's been seeking, Leo's hysterical mother interrupts the session. Now, Leo, in a state of confusion, will search for answers to the obstacles holding him back.
A crumbling art dealer sees in a new talent, the salvation of his business and the redefinition of his life, but first he must convince himself and at the same time change his vision of art.
Santo Domingo, the heat, the flame trees and the Sun. An essay-poem.
