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El signo vacío = (The empty sign) / a Ramey Films production ; una película de Kathryn Ramey.
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Academic Video Online
- Language:
- English
- Multiple languages
- Spanish
- Subjects (All):
- Military occupation.
- Imperialism.
- Puerto Rico--History.
- Puerto Rico.
- Puerto Rico--Politics and government.
- United States--Foreign relations--History.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Feature films.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (76 minutes)
- Other Title:
- Empty sign
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Third World Newsreel, 2023.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- In Spanish.
- Original language in Spanish.
- Original language in English.
- System Details:
- video file
- Summary:
- "El Signo Vacío (the empty sign)" is 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 (the empty sign)" becomes "re-educational" film challenging the viewer to re-think about modern colonization, its mechanism and responsibilities.
- Participant:
- Voice of god, David Skeist.
- Notes:
- Title from title screen (viewed September 10, 2025).
- OCLC:
- 1528324862
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