Film: El ángel exterminador / The Exterminating Angel
October 1 @ 5:30pm – 7:30pm
Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month at The Dalí with a special screening and discussion of El ángel exterminador (The Exterminating Angel, 1962), Luis Buñuel’s acclaimed surrealist masterpiece.
While Spanish filmmaker Luis Buñuel is well known for his collaboration with Salvador Dalí on Un Chien Andalou (1929), his prolific film career also took him to Mexico. In El ángel exterminador, Buñuel brings surrealist ideas shaped by his collaborations with Dalí into conversation with post-Revolutionary Mexican disillusionment. This biting satire of the bourgeois follows an elegant dinner party that inexplicably descends into chaos, resulting in an unforgettable dark comedy.
The film will be introduced by Dr. Olivia Cosentino of the Department of Humanities, Arts and Film at the University of South Florida, followed by an audience Q&A.
Location: The Dalí Museum’s Will Raymund Theater
Cost: $5
Gallery access is not included.
Dr. Olivia Cosentino is an Assistant Professor of Film and New Media Studies in the Department of Humanities, Arts, & Film at the University of South Florida. Her research focuses on stardom, modernity, affect, and politics in post-Golden Age and contemporary Mexican film and culture. She co-edited The Lost Cinema of Mexico: From Lucha Libre to Cine Familiar and Other Churros (University of Florida Press, 2022), a volume that rethinks popular cinema from the 1960s to 1980s. She is currently revising her monograph, Starscapes: Youth, Media, and Modernity in Mexico.
