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Os Angelinos

 
 

OS ANGELINOS investigates the fluxes of an empty metropolis. Structured as a multilingual open letter to the city of Los Angeles, the film’s narrative is fluid. We take Los Angeles as our protagonist, and move from language to language, neighborhood to neighborhood, story to story, following no chronologic or geographic order. We visit seven LA county regions and document how they interconnect with the city’s iconic highway system. At each location, we look for city escapes, construction sites, infrastructure complexes, buildings, houses, parks, monuments, and freeways that tell stories of immigrant resistance, existence, and resilience.

 

Director & Producer: João da Rocha

Editor & Producer: Syl Sutton

Cinematography: Allison Nguyen

Producer: Alice Airoldi

Screenings

  • Interbay Cinema Society, 2025

  • Vacant to Vibrant, 2024

Festivals

  • Los Angeles Experimental Forum, 2024

  • Bogotá Experimental Film Festival, 2024

 
 

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