Director: Larry Gottheim
Year: 1989
Country: USA
Language: English
Length: 42 mins
Format: NTSC | R0
Colour: Colour
Aspect Ratio: 1.33: 1
Certificate: E

Synopsis

Rapid, disjunctive images and sounds from aspects of life in the Dominican Republic – a film dealing with representation itself, within ritual, within cinema, within history, within narrating. The title is a Dominican song, based on a Haitian song, meaning a razor-sharp machete; it is, of course, a complex metaphor within the cultures from which it comes, but also within the film, extending my longstanding interest in edges, borders, horizons, into material of documentary interest. – Canyon Cinema

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