"Pisingana" may refer to a child's game based on a spider's web, but there is nothing playful about the domestic web in which a young peasant girl finds herself trapped. Graciela, a victim of military brutality (or were the "soldiers" really guerrillas in disguise?-truth is never clear in Colombian fiction), having been terribly abused, is forcibly relocated out of "enemy territory" into the city. She finds work as a menial with a middle-class Bogotano family whose repressed family life, although ostensibly normal, had deteriorated to the point where any catalyst would be cathartic and catastrophic. However, what might seem familiar is inflected with the canniest of deadpan perspectives that pushes framing and performance just off center into a strange and compelling kind of hyperrealism. Pinzón, born in Colombia in 1939, studied filmmaking in Prague in the mid-sixties during the golden period of Czechoslovakian cinema. --Laurence Kardish