Cuerpos: Territorios y travesías (Bodies: Territories and Crossings)

This program is presented as a part of the Latin American Studies Association Congress and co-presented by CiNEOLA.

“Through a diverse selection of short experimental documentaries, avant-garde films, and the documentation of performances, this eclectic program suggests some of the ways in which artists and filmmakers from Latin America and the Latin American diaspora have used and represented the human body — their own and those of others — over the past 50 years. By turns poetic or angry, humorous or somber, together these 10 short titles present a broad and powerful range of meditations on our bodies as both a vehicle and subject of media arts.”

— Jesse Lerner, program curator

Program

A Olga (Horacio Vallereggio, 1975, Argentina, 8 min.)

Instant mural [documentación en super-8] (Asco, 1974, US, 1 min.)

Cadáveres exquisitos (Ricardo Nicolayevsky, 1985, Mexico, 6 min.)

Michel Nedjar (Teo Hernández, 1978, Mexico/France, 13 min.)

Desnudo con alcatraces (Silvia Gruner, 1986, Mexico, 3 min.)

La impresión de una guerra (Camilo Restrepo, 2015, Colombia/France, 26 min.)

Tierra (Regina José Galindo, 2013, Guatemala/France, 6 min.)

Se busca (un mar de ausencia) (Annalisa D. Quagliata Blanco, 2016, Mexico, 2 min.)

Allí vienen (Ezekiel Reyes, 2016, Mexico, 8 min.)

Burial Pyramid (Ana Mendieta, 1974, Cuba, México, USA, 3 min.)

About the Program Curator

Jesse Lerner is a filmmaker, curator, and writer based in Los Angeles and Mexico City. His experimental documentary films have won numerous prizes at film festivals in the United States, Latin America, and Japan, and have screened at New York City’s Museum of Modern Art; Mexico’s National Anthropology Museum; the Guggenheim Museums in New York and Bilbao; and the Sundance, Rotterdam, and Los Angeles Film Festivals. His books include The Maya of Modernism and F is for Phony: Fake Documentary and Truth’s Undoing (with Alexandra Juhasz), Ism Ism Ism (with Luciano Piazza), The Catherwood Project (with Leandro Katz), L.A. Collects L.A., and The Shock of Modernity.

This program is co-presented by CiNEOLA

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