{"id":36057,"date":"2010-09-28T13:00:05","date_gmt":"2010-09-28T17:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/?p=36057"},"modified":"2017-01-26T14:22:38","modified_gmt":"2017-01-26T19:22:38","slug":"global-lens-gods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2010\/09\/28\/global-lens-gods\/","title":{"rendered":"Global Lens series continues with Peruvian film &#039;Gods&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2010\/09\/dioses1-web.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"590\" height=\"395\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2010\/09\/dioses1-web.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large alignright\" alt=\"Global Lens film,\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Global Lens series of films from around the world continues at Bates College with<em> <\/em><em>Gods<\/em> by Peruvian director Josu\u00e9 M\u00e9ndez, showing at 8 p.m. Friday, Oct. 1, and 6 p.m. Monday, Oct. 4, in the Ronj, Bates&#8217; student-run coffeehouse, 32 Frye St.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Hosted by the Bates College Museum of Art, the series continues on Fridays and Mondays throughout the fall. Admission is $5. Made in 2008, <em>Gods<\/em> is in Spanish with English subtitles (91 min.). For more information, please contact 207-786-6135 or this <em>olinarts@bates.edu<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The Global Film Initiative produces the series in an effort to promote cross-cultural understanding through the medium of cinema by showing little-known, skillfully made independent films to American audiences. The initiative believes that &#8220;a powerful, authentic narrative can foster trust and respect between disparate cultures and mitigate the social and psychological impact of cultural prejudice.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In M\u00e9ndez&#8217;s stylishly composed second feature, Elisa, soon to be the wife of a wealthy industrialist, is eager to shed her working-class background in favor of the opulence of her fianc\u00e9&#8217;s elite lifestyle.<\/p>\n<p>To her disappointment, she soon realizes her hopes to live a life of domestic splendor must also include her future stepchildren: Diego, who is hounded by his overbearing father and Andrea, Diego&#8217;s party-girl sister and the object of both his desire and disgust.<\/p>\n<p>As Elisa embraces her new life of lavish parties and beachfront estates, Diego and Andrea rebel against their upper-class upbringing, setting the stage for an ironic contrast of fate and ambition in this biting satire on upper-crust wealth and privilege.<\/p>\n<p>M\u00e9ndez was born in Lima, Peru, in 1976. He graduated with a degree in Film studies and Latin American Studies from Yale University in 1998. His first film, <em>D\u00edas de Santiago,<\/em> won more than 35 international awards. In addition to his work as executive producer and editor for films, he has written and directed for Peruvian television, advertising and theater.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Global Lens series of films from around the world continues at Bates College with &#8220;Gods&#8221; by Peruvian director Josu\u00e9 M\u00e9ndez, showing at 8 p.m. Friday, Oct. 1, and 6 p.m. Monday, Oct. 4, in the Ronj, 32 Frye St.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1363,3529,3875,6889,10752],"class_list":["post-36057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-batesnews","tag-bates-college-museum-of-art","tag-film-series","tag-global-lens","tag-performing-and-visual-arts","tag-south-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36057"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87557,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36057\/revisions\/87557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}