EL SIGNO VACÍO
(the empty sign)

by Kathryn RAMEY
2023 / 16mm / color-b&w / sound / 75' 00

EL SIGNO VACÍO (The Empty Sign) is a feature-length experimental essay film that presents a counter-archive of the United States’ century-long occupation of our neighbor in the Caribbean. 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 in which we are all complicit – including the filmmaker, whose name is ironically and coincidentally shared by a former Air Force base now US border control in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico.


post production: ATELIER 105

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distribution format Digital file on server (UHD)
notes Subtitles in English and Spanish. French subtitles available.
screen 1,37 - Standard
speed 24 fps
sound sound
rental fee 243,00 €

distribution format DCP on server (INTEROP 4K)
notes Subtitles in English and Spanish. French subtitles available.
screen 1,37 - Standard
speed 24 fps
sound sound
rental fee 243,00 €