(Festival de Cine Mexicano)
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harmony and Me heart of Time (Corazón del tiempo)
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Rough-hewn and heartfelt, the latest shoestring comedy from writer/
MEXICO / SPAIN
As the Zapatista movement takes hold and government troops
Director: Bob Byington director Bob Byington (RSO: Registered Sex Offender) chronicles the Director: Alberto Cortés encroach on the Mexican state of Chiapas, a young local named Sonia
Executive Producers: Anish Savjani, woes of Harmony, a mopey 30-year-old (Justin Rice, best known as Producers: Ana Solares, Alberto Cortés
has her own problems: she is having second thoughts about her
Stuart Bohart
the lead singer of alt-rock band Bishop Allen) who’s torn up after his
Screenwriters: Hermann Bellinghausen,
upcoming wedding. She’s engaged, her dowry of a cow already spent.
Producer: Kristen Tucker girlfriend Jessica (Kristen Tucker, who also coproduces) dumps him. He Alberto Cortés But after an encounter in the forest with Julio, one of the Zapatista
Screenwriter: Bob Byington seeks solace among his laconic slacker friends (indie vets Kevin Corrigan, Cinematographer: Marc Bellver
rebels, she has fallen in love, and she tells her father the marriage is
MS: A to Z
Cinematographer: Jim Eastburn
Pat Healy, and Alex Karpovsky of Woodpecker, SDFF 31), who cheer
Editors: Lucrecia Gutierrez Maupomé,
off, thereby upending the stability of the indigenous community in
MS: A to Z
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Editors: Frank Ross, Jacob Vaughan
him up with deadpan jokes about pedophilia and sexual dysfunction Alberto Cortés which she lives and threatening the safety of the rebels.
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Cast: Justin Rice, Kevin Corrigan, – although he gets no such sympathy from Mom, whose wisdom on Cast: Rocío Barrios, Francisco Jiménez,
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Pat Healy, Alex Karpovsky,
searching for a new soulmate inheres in nuggets like “find one who
Marisela Rodríguez, Doña Aurelia,
Family pressure mounts with Sonia’s grandmother holding forth on
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Kristen Tucker, Bob Byington,
moves her arms and legs.”
Leonardo Rodríguez
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the importance of traditional values and the necessity of sacrifice,
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Jerm Pollet, Allison Latta,
2008 / color / 90 min.
but the usually gentle Sonia shakes it off and pursues what she wants
Margie Beegle, Keith Poulson,
Bob Schneider
Byington’s 75-minute slice-of-strife shares some of the cinematic sensi- with quiet but inexorable determination – even as local inhabitants tie
2009 / color / 75 min.
bilities associated with the city it was shot in – Austin, Texas – what with bandannas around their faces and protest the presence of the troops,
its lo-fi digital look, its seemingly random (and highly engaging) streams
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chanting Zapatista slogans, government helicopters wheeling over-
of dialogue, and its sweet-and-sour view of romance. Rice’s performance
Alberto Cortés was born in Mexico
head. The personal and political thus intersect in a delicate love story
City in 1952 and studied directing and
BoB BYinGTon
as the down-in-the-mouth title character is winning (as were his turns in
editing at the Centro Universitario
peopled by a cast of nonprofessional actors who bring an engaging
Originally from Lincoln, Nebraska,
other low-budget charmers like Funny Ha Ha and Mutual Appreciation,
de Estudios Cinematográficos
authenticity to their characters. They negotiate a script that feels more
Bob Byington studied at University of SDFF 28), so in the end we’re all rooting for Harmony – and what has to from 1973 to 1979. He has directed like a documentary than a narrative, a story that is blessed with both
California – Santa Cruz and received
pass as his redemption.
many documentaries and short
an innocent sweetness and a strong political motivation.
an MA in American studies from documentaries; his first feature film
the University of Texas. His second
Preceded by:
won Mexico’s Ariel Award.
A student of ethnology in college, writer/director Alberto Cortés has
film, Olympia, was the opening
night film at SXSW in 1998; after a imminent
Selected Filmography
worked in film and television since the 1980s; his 1997 drama Violeta
nearly decade-long hiatus, Byington
Director: Randall Good
Teatro Campesino (2007)
was supported by a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation.
returned with RSO (Registered Sex
Mexico City Hip Hop (2004)
Offender), which premiered at SXSW
USA / 2009 / 10 min.
The Fire of the Word (2003)
in 2008.
Two friends. One stares. The other doesn’t.
City of the Blind (1991)
Sponsored by:
Filmography
RSO (Registered Sex Offender) (2008)
Olympia (1998)
Shameless (1996)
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