Shapeless, Like Water

Shapeless, Like Water

Shapeless, Like Water

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Shapeless, Like Water

2018

0h 19m

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A character study of Puerto Rican struggling rapper Negro Gonzalez, a portrait of his island, a beautiful land tarnished by US colonization and an ode to the unbreakable spirit of Puerto Rican artists.

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Negro González

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Chagy Vargas

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Omar Iloy

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