Documentary Screening: LANDFALL

La Residencia: no me dejan quedarme aquí events is part of Welcome to Paradise: ¡Viva Puerto Rico Libre!, bringing film screenings and art talks into the gallery. The program highlights Hurricane María, debt, displacement, and protest, while centering voices from Borikén/Puerto Rico. It pushes against colonial myths, keeping alive the voices and futures that such scripts attempt to silence.

LANDFALL is a documentary film by Cecilia Aldarondo from the Puerto Rican Diaspora.

Through fragmentary glimpses of daily life in post-María Puerto Rico, LANDFALL becomes a cautionary tale for our times. Framed by the 2019 protests that ousted the island’s governor, the film portrays both collective trauma and acts of resistance. While María’s wreckage drew global headlines, far less attention was paid to the storm that came before: a $72 billion debt crisis already crippling the island. Linking these twin disasters—one natural, the other economic—LANDFALL contrasts competing visions of recovery. Intimate encounters with locals and newcomers alike ask a pressing question: when the world collapses, who do we become?

*This film is in both English and Spanish with English subtitles*

Note: The gallery offers 88 seats—44 with backrests and 44 stools. Additional attendees may need to sit on the floor or bring a chair/mat.