2013 | Puerto Rico | Documentary,Short

The Black Cave

  • Spanish 20 mins
  • Director | Beatriz Santiago Muñoz
  • Writer | Beatriz Santiago Muñoz

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The Black Cave (La Cueva Negra) explores the Paso del Indio, an indigenous burial ground in Puerto Rico that was discovered during the construction of a highway, and eventually paved over. Drawing on interviews with local residents and with archaeologists involved in the excavation, Beatriz Santiago Muñoz’s video offers a reflection on the origins and meanings of the site, which becomes in the process an allegory for the island’s convoluted history. The camera tracks two teenage boys wandering through the area, their freedom of movement and sense of curiosity symbolizing the romantic but ultimately misguided desire to find and preserve paradise.

cave indigenous puerto rico archeology history anthropology
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