El signo vacío = The empty sign a Rameyfilms production ; una película de Kathryn Ramey

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Ramey, Kathryn, filmmaker.

Skeist, David, narrator.

Rameyfilms, production company.

Third World Newsreel (Firm), distributor.

Language:

English

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Puerto Rico.

United States.

Diplomatic relations.

Genre:

History

Documentary films

Feature films

Nonfiction films

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 video file (1 hr., 15 min., 21 sec.)) sound, color with black & white sequences

Other Title:

Empty sign

Place of Publication:

[New York, New York] [Third World Newsreel] [2023]

Language Note:

English with Spanish subtitles with optional closed captioning in English

System Details:

digital

video file

Summary:

"A feature-length anthropological journey through the United States’ occupation of Puerto Rico. Mixing over a hundred years of found footage – tourism, agricultural and propaganda films – with contemporary portraits of local artists and activists and Puerto Rican punk rock/noise music, the film reveals how carefully crafted American fictions of “democracy” and “debt” obscure a capitalist and military domination that is ongoing. Moving between old and new; Spanish and English; between paradise and environmental destruction the EL SIGNO VACÍO becomes a “re-educational” film challenging the viewer to re-think about modern colonization, its mechanism and responsibilities"-- From Rameyfilms.com

Participant:

Narrator: David Skeist, Kathryn Ramey

Notes:

Online resource; title from title frame (Alexander Street, viewed August 6, 2025)

OCLC:

1528324862

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license