Abraham Villa Figueroa

Abraham Villa Figueroa writes film and literary criticism. His work has appeared in Mexican outlets such as Revista de la Universidad, Nexos and Criticismo, among others. He is one of the editors-in-chief of El Cine Probablemente, a Spanish language film magazine. He was an alumnus of the critic programme at the Locarno film festival and currently he is an alumnus of the fiction writing workshop at La Fundación para las Letras Mexicanas (Foundation for Mexican Letters). 

On The Eve of the Future

Eduardo Williams on The Human Surge 3 (2023)

Alonso Aguilar Candanedo, Arta Barzanji, Abraham Villa Figueroa, 2024
CONVERSATION
07.02.2024
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In the playful “sequel” to his 2017 festival breakthrough, The Human Surge, Williams tackles the erratic mechanisms of virtual-reality technology through the lucid hyper-reality of a group of characters ranging from different latitudes in the so-called Global South. Captured entirely with a 360-degree lens that’s normally reserved for VR but projected on a traditional cinema screen, the film follows three groups of friends from Taiwan, Peru and Sri Lanka who meet, converse and traverse through space and time as the film helps transport them across borders through the magic of cinema.

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