"MORICHALES" by Chris Gude, documentary on VENZUELAN GOLD MINING co-presented by ELEMENTARY COFFEE!

Name: "MORICHALES" by Chris Gude, documentary on VENZUELAN GOLD MINING co-presented by ELEMENTARY COFFEE!
Start: 2026-05-30T11:00:00-04:00
Location: Midtown Cinema

Schedule

Sat, 30 May, 2026 at 11:00 am

UTC-04:00

Location

Midtown Cinema | Harrisburg, PA

SATURDAY (May 30) 11AM: "Morichales"
Chris Gude/16mm/Columbia/83min
In Venezuelan Guayana, large gold reserves lie beneath “moriche” palms, attracting miners from across the region. A narrator travels from far-flung mines in the jungle to the banks of the Orinoco River, trying to understand the uncertain fortune of the miner. His reflections combine illustrations and photochemical paintings to draw a map of the mining and commercialization of gold in Venezuela while also questioning humankind’s extractivist
relationship with nature.
Filmed over the course of thirteen years, ‘Morichales’ is a journey deep into the most disputed territory of the country, immersed in the anxious quest for gold.
co-presented with ELEMENTARY COFFEE, who source most of their beans from a direct trade source in Columbia!
Kicking off DAY THREE of the 27th Annual Moviate Underground Film Festival!
MIDTOWN CINEMA, 11AM, Saturday May 30th, 2026