On 20 September 2017, one of the most violent storms ever to hit the Caribbean made landfall on the island of Puerto Rico. The storm, the likes of which Puerto Ricans had never experienced, gathered in intensity before tearing through the Dominican Republic and the U.S. Virgin Islands, ending in Puerto Rico. Those who survived the storm-hell were bound to the hell of its aftermath. In Santiago Muñoz’s observational style, Gosila documents the upended and devastated landscape after the hurricane, and the slow and endless work of clearing debris, water-filled roads, and unbridled nature. The title refers to the cult film Godzilla (1954), where a sea creature turned terrestrial monster destroys the island of Odo and then Tokyo. Gosila is a film about disorder, sense-making from the ground up, slowness, and the work-days after the hurricane.
Spanish spoken, English subtitles
