Carlos Almaraz: Playing with Fire

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"As the documentary opera prima of its directors, "Playing with Fire" is a good enough effort to showcase the complexities of both the life and work of its subject: Mexican-born and L. A.-based artist Carlos Almaraz. There are two main ways in which Almaraz's voice comes through in the film, one is a long form video interview where he himself discussed his motivations and the inspiration behind his paintings. The second, a particularly clever decision, is the reading of fragments of his diaries by the well-known musician Zack de la Rocha. Either by performance or coincidence (or ..."