Saturday, March 21, 2026

The Aura of Upstate, by Evens Angulo-Duvil
Pivot Festival of Contemporary Arts

Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Animated film, followed by documentary about the process

Despite being born in Italy, Evens Angulo-Duvil is an Upstate New Yorker through and through. From his childhood to the present day, he's used his talents to capture the feeling of Upstate, but his latest project, and directorial debut, aims to do something greater. Angulo-Duvil's magnum-opus (to this point at least) is a short film titled The Aura of Upstate. Taking lessons he learned from Trussell and Ward's Midnight Gospel, he's attempted to capture the spirit of Upstate New York through the same method.

Over the course of the year, he's interviewed locals from the Capital Region, from bars to skate shops and everything in between. He's taken the best clips from these interviews, and animated over them to create a cohesive project that tells the story of the Capital Region from none other than the real people that inhabit it.

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