Lisandro Alonso on Eureka, Indigenous Perspective, Film Festival Controversies, and Being Stubborn
One of the pioneers of contemporary slow cinema, Lisandro Alonso made a name for himself on the festival circuit with his 2001 feature La libertad, which took that very notion of duration and “boredom” associated with the art-film subgenre to new heights. Following his international breakthrough-of-sorts in 2014, the Viggo Mortensen-starring post-colonial western Jauja, Alonso…