‘The Kitchen’ Director Alonso Ruizpalacios at BAM: ‘We Need More Trojan Horses’

At the Bogotá Audiovisual Market, Colombia's World Cup penalty-shootout loss left the opening-day crowd visibly deflated just as director Alonso Ruizpalacios took the stage. The masterclass began an hour late. Ruizpalacios acknowledged the disappointed audience by invoking Elizabeth Butcher's poem 'One Art.' According to Variety, he then discussed his film 'The Kitchen' and his philosophy on cinema: the medium needs what he calls 'more Trojan horses'—works that disrupt established conventions and transform audiences.

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