Dalissa Montes de Oca, Pacamán, 2021

Documentary, Digital color video, with sound • 23m • Dominican Republic

Dalissa Montes de Oca (b. 1998, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic)

On the busy Avenida Duarte in Santo Domingo, vendors stand beside mountains of clothes and compete for passing customers. But the hypnotic rhythms of their daily grind contrast with the life of, and their lives in, the city at night. 

Dalissa Montes de Oca is a filmmaker and photographer from the Dominican Republic. In addition to Pacamán, she is the director of the short ethnographic fiction Yanelly (2020) and the experimental short White Light: Reminiscences of a Place I Never Went (2020).

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Dalissa Montes de Oca (n. 1998, Santo Domingo, República Dominicana)

En la bulliciosa Avenida Duarte de Santo Domingo, los vendedores se colocan junto a montañas de ropa y compiten por los clientes que pasan. Pero los ritmos hipnóticos de su rutina diaria contrastan con la vida de la ciudad y sus vidas durante la noche.

Dalissa Montes de Oca es cineasta y fotógrafa de la República Dominicana. Además de Pacamán, es directora del cortometraje de ficción etnográfica Yanelly (2020) y del cortometraje experimental White Light: Reminiscences of a Place I Never Went (2020).

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Dalissa Montes de Oca (fèt an 1998, Santo Domingo, Repiblik Dominikèn)

Sou Avenida Duarte ki plen aktivite nan Sendomeng, machann yo kanpe bò kote yon pil rad epi y ap fè konpetisyon pou kliyan k ap pase. Men, ritm chak jou yo diferan de aktivite vil la, ak lavi yo nan vil la nan mitan lannwit.

Dalissa Montes de Oca se yo reyalizatè ak fotograf ki soti nan Repiblik Dominikèn. Apa Pacamán, li se reyalizatè fim kout fiksyon etnografik Yanelly (2020) ak fim kout eksperimantal White Light: Reminiscences of a Place I Never Went (2020).

DALISSA MONTES DE OCA, Pacamán, 2021. Digital color video, with sound, 22 min., 54 sec. © Dalissa Montes de Oca. Courtesy of the artist.