No homeland/no fear

In 2002 PBS commissioned several Latino filmmakers to create a three-hour documentary on Latino arts" in the U.S. The segment for San Francisco was commissioned to Gustavo Vazquez, who in turn invited me to partake in the project. We decided to feature "re:group," a loose association of S.F.-based performance artists who had created "a multi-ethnic/multi-generational performance lab" in response to the perils of 9/11 and the dangers of the Bush era. Our performance imagery was a strange premonition of sinister things to come, including the invasion of Iraq and the shocking Abu Graib photos. ...the material was so politically explicit and sexually charged that soon it became clear to Vazquez and me that PBS was not going to air it... Vazquez and I decided to still go ahead and create the poetic portrait of the rebel troupe we originally desired.

-- Guillermo Gómez-Peña, 2007

This title is only available on Border Art Clásicos (1990-2005): An Anthology of Collaborative Video Works by Guillermo Gómez-Peña.