Ismo, Ismo, Ismo – Umbrales: Experimental Women Filmmakers from Latin America [Online]
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Discussion
** LA Filmforum friends will be joined by Cecilia Vicuña, Ximena Cuevas and others for a Zoom Q&A at 2pm PDT on Saturday. We will send registrants a link to join the Zoom at noon on Saturday! **
About
** Co-presented with Interbay Cinema Society! **
This program showcases female filmmakers who sought to carve out a place within the male- dominated world of Latin American independent audiovisual production. Key works, such as Argentine filmmaker Narcisa Hirsch’s Come Out (1971), exemplify the defiant position toward gendered and essentializing aesthetics expected of Latin American women filmmakers. This program includes pioneering Uruguayan filmmaker Lydia García Millán’s Color (1955), one of the first abstract experimental films from Latin America; the politically charged Super 8 experiments by Puerto Rican underground artist Poli Marichal; and a recent video essay by Mexican artist Ximena Cuevas.
- Come Out (Narcisa Hirsch, Argentina, 1971, 11 min)
- Color (Lydia Garcia, Uruguay, 1955, 4 min)
- Desnudo con alcatraces (Silvia Gruner, Mexico, 1986, 2 min, silent, b&w)
- Popsicles (Gloria Camiruaga, Chile/US, 1982-1984, 5 min, Spanish w/ English subtitles)
- Umbrales (Marie Louise Alemann, Argentina, 1967, 19 min)
- Paracas (Cecilia Vicuña, Chile/US, 1983, 19 min, Spanish w/ English subtitles)
- Devil in the Flesh (Ximena Cuevas, Mexico, 2003, 5 min, Spanish w/ English subtitles)
- Copacabana (Vivian Ostrovsky, Brazil, 1983, 10 min)
- Blues Tropical (Poli Marichal, Puerto Rico, 1982, 4 min)
Ism, Ism, Ism: Experimental Cinema in Latin America (Ismo, Ismo, Ismo: Cine experimental en América Latina)
Ism Ism Ism: Experimental Cinema in Latin America is a research project and film series conceived by Los Angeles Filmforum as part of the Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA initiative.
Ism, Ism, Ism is the first comprehensive, U.S.-based film program and publication to treat the full breadth of Latin America’s vibrant experimental film production. The screenings feature key historical and contemporary works from Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, Venezuela, Puerto Rico and the United States. Revisiting classic names and forms from the experimental canon, the film series daringly places them within a completely novel scope and breadth. The film series takes both the aficionado and open-minded viewer through a journey into a wealth of materials culled from the forgotten corners of Latin American film archives integrated with recent production from across the continent.
