¡Cine Club! Archive
August 18, 6:30 p.m. - Wednesday
"New Videos From Mexico"
Guest Speaker: Rita Gonzalez
Screened at the San Diego Public Library's
central branch at 820 E. St.
Admission: FREE ($3 donation requested)
Mucho Ojo: Contemporary Video from Mexico
The group of video artists represented in this program use humor, irony, and collage in distinctive ways to create (to quote Roberto Lopez' video) un retrato de la generacion de la crisis. "Mucho ojo" is a play on the phrase used to take care or be cautious, in this instance, however, it is meant to suggest the extreme care these artists take with the image. Surviving Carlos Salinas and nearly surviving his successor Ernesto Zedillo has -- for these artists -- meant holding up a fractured image of Mexico up to Mexicans to observe and critique. The artists in the program sample freely from the cultural landscape, including everything from ex-votos to children's television to pre-Hispanic iconography to telenovelas.
Included in the program:
New shorts from Ximena Cuevas: "Estamos para Servirle," "Contemporary Artist, " "Hawaii," "Destino," "Natural Instincts," "Alma Gemela," "El Diablo en la piel," and "Calzada de Kansas" (all 1999), 25 minutes.
Roberto Lopez: "Retrato de la generacion de la crisis" (1998), 8 minutes.
Yoshua Okun: "Mucho Ojo" (1995), 2 minutes.
Mariana Razo Botey: El Dedal de las Rosas (1999), 16 minutes.
Ruben Ortiz-Torres: Alien Toy (1998), 10 minutes.
Milena Muzquiz y Los Super Elegantes: Hollywood, an episode from Los Super Elegantes telenovela, 15 minutes.
Rita Gonzalez is a media artist, programmer and writer living in San Diego. Her video work, installation and single-channel, has been screened at Artist Space (New York), Armand Hammer Museum (Los Angeles), Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (as part of L.A. Freewaves), and many other venues. Over the last year, she has been working with filmmaker Jesse Lerner on Cine Mexperimental, a touring film and video program highlighting sixty years of avant-garde media in Mexico. The series has traveled througout the West coast, from the Pacific Film Archives to the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, and will continue through 1999 with shows scheduled at the Guggenheim Museum and Chicago Filmmakers.
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