Ism, Ism, Ism: Recycled Cinema
@ The Block Museum
40 Arts Circle Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Friday, November 1st, from 7PM - 8:30PM
This evening offers two programs exploring alternative strategies of appropriation: found footage and camp. “Recycled Cinema†presents acts of decolonization and critique through collages of appropriated images and audio, challenging dominant modes of representation. In 1958’s ‘Cowboy’ and ‘Indian’ Film, Nuyoriquen artist Raphael Montañez Ortiz hacked the reels of an American western to pieces with a tomahawk “to release their evil,†while a more recent work, Artemio’s Apoohcalypse Now, is a mash-up of Disney’s Winnie the Pooh and Apocalypse Now. The filmmakers in “Estrellas de Ayer†borrow an alternative reading of Hollywood stars, emphasizing queer nostalgia and excess. Films such as Teo Hernandez’s Estrellas de ayer and José Rodriguez Soltero’s Lupe pay homage to Greta Garbo, Joan Crawford, Marlene Dietrich, and Lupe Vélez with performative extravagance.
No D.R.
(Alfredo SalomoÌn, 2002, Mexico, digital, 1 min)
Newsreel 49
(InstituÌto Cubano de Artes e Industrias CinematograÌficas, 1960, Cuba, digital, 1 min)
Cowboy and ‘Indian’ Film
(Raphael Montañez Ortiz, 1958, USA, digital, 2 min)
Desde la Havana ¡1969! Recordar
(NicolaÌs GuilleÌn LandriaÌn, 1969, Cuba, digital, 17 min)
The Bombing of Washington
(Luis Ospina, 1972, Columbia/USA, digital, 1 min)
The Big Wack
(Ricardo Nicolayevsky, 2002, Mexico, digital, 3 min)
Prayer for Marilyn Monroe
(Marisol Trujillo, Miriam Talavera, and PepiÌn Rodriguez, 1983, Cuba, digital, 8 min)
Apoohcalypse Now
(Artemio, 2002, Mexico, digital, 8 min)
Pinochet’s Women
(Eduardo Menz, 2004, Canada/Chile, digital, 12 min)
The Ruins of BahiÌa Blanca
(Nicolas Testoni, 2012, Argentina, digital, 6 min)
Pobre del cantor
(Taller Independiente de Cine Experimental, 1978, Mexico, digital, 2 min)
Sloppy Work
(Enrique Colina, 1987, Cuba, digital, 11 min)
SERIES:
Ism, Ism, Ism: Experimental Cinema in Latin America
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Tags: Alfredo Salomón, Block Museum, Eduardo Menz, Enrique Colina, Evanston, Institúto Cubano de Artes e Industrias Cinematográficas, ISM, Ism: Recycled Cinema, Marisol Trujillo, Nicolás Guillén Landrián, Nicolas Testoni, Raphael Montañez Ortiz, Ricardo Nicolayevsky
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