Ismo, ismo, ismo : cine experimental en América Latina = Ism, ism, ism : experimental cinema in Latin America / edited by Jesse Lerner and Luciano Piazza.
Publisher:
University of California Press ;
Copyright Date:
2017
Description:
vii, 400 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm
"Published with the assistance of the Getty Foundation."-- title page. "The multi-part screening series features key historical and contemporary time-based Latin American and Latino works, hosted in a combination of screening venues, museums, galleries and community spaces, from September 2017 to January 2018 in Los Angeles, and subsequently traveling to other venues"--Page facing title page. Includes bibliographical references (pages 390-394) and index.
Contents:
Foreword / Adam Hyman -- Ism, ism, ism / Jesse Lerner and Luciano Piazza -- Visual experimentation in Super 8: Mexico and Latin America / Álvaro Vásquez Mantecón -- Little cinema is dead! Long live Cinema! / José de la Colina -- A secret history / Alfonso Gumucio Dagron -- Cameraless South America: under the spell of Norman McLaren / Antoni Pinent -- The performative in Venezuelan experimental film / Isabel Arredondo -- Fifth Caracas Super 8 Film Festival / Julio Neri and Mercedes Márquez -- The image belongs to those who work with it: recycled cinema in Latin America / Jesse Lerner -- Ism ism / Manuel DeLanda -- Super 8 experimental film in Puerto Rico during the 1980s / Poli Marichal -- The appropriations of Che's image -- Experimental cinema in Cuba? / Luisa Marisy -- A new phase in the history of cinema / Claudio Caldini -- A pocket constellation: in praise of Argentinian experimental cinema in Super 8 / Pablo Marín -- OMR / Silvestre Byrón -- Thresholds of experience: on Marie Louise Alemann's Umbrales / Federico Windhausen -- "Fax fatory" studios: Solá Film / María Belén Moncayo -- It started as a hobby: experimental film / Revista Ercilla -- Mysteries of the creative act / Jorge Sanjinés -- Resistant stories / Ángela López Ruiz -- Third International Documentary and Experimental Film Festival / SODRE -- The founding of the Center for Experimental Film / Claudio Salinas Muñoz and Hans Stange Marcus -- Raúl Ruiz, or anthropology's trembling images / Tarek Elhaik -- Radio Belén / Mauricio Godoy -- Miss Universo en el Perú / Mauricio Godoy -- Proposal for establishing the film institute in Barranquilla / Gabriel García Márquez -- The Barranquilla Group, La Cueva, and experimental film / Marta Lucía Vélez -- What is poverty porn? / Luis Ospina and Carlos Mayolo -- Material for release / Torquato Neto -- The resonant times of Hélio Oiticica's quasi-film / Rubens Machado Jr. -- Super 8 as an instrument of language / Sérgio Péo -- Films / Torquato Neto -- To attempt the experimental / Hélio Oiticica -- General bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments -- Image credits.
Summary:
Ism, Ism, Ism / Ismo, Ismo, Ismo is the first comprehensive, United States-based film program and catalogue to treat the full breadth of Latin America's vibrant experimental film production. The exhibition features key historical and contemporary films from Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, Venezuela, Puerto Rico and the United States. From innovative works by Brazilian artist Helio Oiticica and Mexican photographer Manuel Alvarez Bravo to the breathtaking yet practically unknown ouevre of queer Ecuadorian filmmaker Eduardo Sola Franco, the exhibition takes both the aficionado and the open-minded viewer on a journey into a wealth of materials culled from the forgotten corners of Latin American film archives. Equally unprecedented in its approach and scope, the accompanying fully bilingual catalogue features major scholars and artists working across nationalities, mediums, and time periods. Lerner and Piazza assemble a mix of original content authored by key curators, scholars, and archivists from Latin America: eighteen essays and articles translated for the first time pertaining to the history of Latin American experimental film, historical image-documents that are fundamental to the history of experimental film in Latin America, and program notes from the exhibition's programs. Published in association with the Los Angeles Filmforum, and as part of the Getty's Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.