Event

Z -- PROGRAM 7: Bronx World Film Cycle, Winter 2015

NOW OUR HISTORY (DIR/SCR Bob Paris. USA, 2014. TRT 1'46")

From the upcoming web exhibition The Disturbance Cycle, which resurrects television coverage of the 1992 L.A. riots to explore spectacle, social disaster, and historic amnesia. The main piece is a 22-minute experimental documentary for 3 large simultaneous screens, abstract installations and a 10-part installation with modules/histories on Bush, Rodney King, Darryl Gates, a black tap dancer on Lawrence Welk, television anchors and more. (New York premiere. In English).

LAMADU QABU (SCR/DIR Emma Gauthier, USA, 2015, TRT 1'58.") CAT: Experimental animation

Darwin's Theory of Evolution is widely accepted as the process by which all living things arrived at their current incarnation -- including human beings. While we understand scientifically how homo sapiens evolved biologically, we don't understand when our unique human consciousness began to take form; when we began recognizing our world aesthetically; when language first failed to express abstract thoughts. Lamadu Qabu is a small origin story of wonder, frustration, and the beginnings of art.

BOMBS (SCR/DIR Christopher Yeaton, USA, 2015, TRT 2'03.") CAT: Experimental animation

A reflective multi-media video piece inspired by my fear/fascination of nuclear warfare.

INVASIÓN (SCR/DIR Abner Benaim. PANAMA/ARGENTINA, 2014. TRT 93 min.) CAT: Documentary

The 1989 U.S. invasion of Panama serves as an excuse to explore how a people remember, transform, and often forget their past to re-define their identity and become who they are today. Invasion documents the collective memory and willful amnesia of Panamanian filmmaker Abner Benaim's fellow countrymen through a combination of reenactments and interviews about the 1989 event. A platform to address the perils of sovereignty, democracy and endangered virtues of today's ultra-capitalist world, Invasion explores how memory becomes history, holding a mirror up to our recent past reflected in the new Panama. (New York premiere. In Spanish with English subtitles)