The films of Trina Lopez

"The feature presentation, A Second Final Rest: The History of San Francisco's Lost Cemeteries (2004), exhumes the hidden history of how this modern metropolis managed to systematically relocate nearly all of its burial grounds to make room for the living. Through recollections of residents who remember these forgotten graveyards to reflections on present-day conflicts that pit the living against the dead, A Second Final Rest reveals an astonishing chapter in the history of the American West in which those who settled the City by the Bay were unceremoniously sent packing long after they had passed from this world to the next. La Llorona ("The Weeping Woman") (1998) delves into the Mexican tale of the same name, and investigates through fragments of image and sound and encounters with this character of oral tradition how myth possesses the power to frighten, protect, and provide guidance to those who share in its transmission. In revealing the anguish, condemnation, and reconciliation La Llorona embodies, the film cites the importance this everchanging narrative possesses to all who learn of it and convey it."-- container.