Malembe

Through its rhythmic montage and mix of observational and surreal imagery Malembe forges oblique linkages between the United States and Venezuela conveying the strange dissociation of being uprooted of living between places As a knife cuts through sky through snow and through fruit quasiethnographic footagewith its conventional markers of music food ritualjoins with homemovie autoportraiture of a New England winter communicating a sense of dislocation at once vertiginously queasy and absurdly comic