LACLA Presents Cine Nueva Onda at Luckman Intimate Theatre

Latin American Cinemateca of Los Angeles (LACLA) kicks off its 2020 season with the experimental Latinx and Latin American film program Cine Nueva Onda on Thursday, January 30 at the Luckman Intimate Theatre at Cal State LA.Cine Nueva Onda features two films by director, visual artist, filmmaker, sound artist, and performer Natalia Lassalle-Morillo. The Puerto Rican-born and Los Angeles-based director will present her films Retiro and La Ruta. Retiro is a multimedia documentary and performance project that reconstructs memories of the directors mother through interviews, behind-the-scenes footage and reenactments performed by the director herself. La Ruta is an experimental documentary that depicts the now abandoned infrastructure, natural landscapes, and off-road sites of Puerto Ricos Panoramic Route.Cine Nueva Onda is a free event co-presented by the Department of Television, Film, and Media Studies at Cal State LA.