Leandro Katz: Screening El día que me quieras (The Day When You Love Me) and Paradox

Leandro Katz is a renowned Argentine filmmaker and visual artist. Some of his notable works include The Catherwood Project, a photographic reconstruction of Stephens and Catherwood’s expeditions through the Maya regions of Central America and Mexico; El día que me quieras, which investigates the events around the capture and execution of Che Guevara in Bolivia in 1967; and Paradox, a film that explores the contrast between Central American archaeology and the banana plantations of the United Fruit Company in Honduras and Guatemala. He has exhibited a an artist at renowned institutions including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the New Museum of Contemporary Art, El Museo del Barrio, the Brooklyn Museum, MoMA PS1, the Chicago Art Institute, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, the Buenos Aires Museum of Modern Art, the Bienal de la Habana in Cuba, and the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía. He has received the Guggenheim Fellowship, the Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship, the National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, among others. He has also received numerous awards, including the Coral Prize at the Festioval del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericana de La Habana.

This event is sponsored by the Department of Central American Studies, the Central American Research & Policy Institute (CARPI), the College of Humanities Academic Programming Fund, and the Department of Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures.