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Amnesia: Latin America Video Portraiture |
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You
Are What You Are Born For Documentary maker Roberto BerlinerŐs recent work, "You are What You are Born For" features three blind sisters who sing for their survival on the streets of Campina Grande, Brazil. By providing personal testimony about the intimate details of their every day experiences, these women bring into question the act of seeing and perceiving. |
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Calle
Chula Veronica Majano depicts the character of a street in the Mission District of San Francisco in her portrait, "Calle Chula." This street is personified as a fifteen year old Salvadoran/Ohlone girl on a search to understand the changes brought on by colonization, dislocation, and more recently, gentrification. |
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Papapapa In this experimental video, Rivera charts the parallel course of two Peruvian migrants, the potato and his father. |
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Magnetic
Balance "Magnetic Balance" is a self- portrait of the artist as a member of a generation she terms the "children of Pinochet." Recalling the circumstances surrounding the execution of a family friend in 1973 at the onset of the Pinochet dictatorship, Ponce reexamines her relationship to Chilean society. The opening image, the disassembly of an audio tape opens up a poetic space where Ponce explores the reconstruction of memory and relative truth. |
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Hombres
Muertos de Amor y la Jauria de Mujeres (Dead Men and the Cage of Women) This dreamlike, poetic video exposes how human relationships are mediated by dominant ideologies as represented in the mass media and religion. |
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Carlos
Nader Nader describes this tape as "A non-autobiography. A video about it's author, a video about nothing." The tape explores notions of identity according to one's color, nationality or politics, and thereby speaks of our oneness. |