Pacamán

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).