Wednesday, March 9, 2005
Presented at:
Market Arcade Film and Art Center
 (Image from Tomas Gutierrez Alea's Memories of Underdevelopment) |
February 2 – March 16, 2005 CUBAN FILM SERIES Wednesday evenings, 7:30 p.m. at the Market Arcade Film & Arts Centre 639 Main Street, Buffalo Presented by Hallwalls and the Burchfield Penney Arts Center in conjunction with the Burchfield Penney’s ’s exhibition Art on the Hyphen: Cuban-American Artists of Western New York State, January 15 – April 3, 2005 $8 General; $6 Burchfield-Penney and Hallwalls Members (with valid membership card); $5.50 students/seniors. Program schedule subject to change without notice. Wednesday, March 9 at 7:30 p.m. WITH THE CUBAN WOMEN (1975, 48 mins.) Directed by Octavio Cortazar Inspiring, high-spirited and often humorous tribute to the Cuban women’s movement – the “revolution within a revolution.” Followed by:  SELECTED FILMWORKS: Ana Mendieta (1972-1981, 33 mins. total)Untitled (Chicken Piece, shot #2), 1972, 2:57 min., silent Body Tracks (Blood Sign #2), 1974, 1 min., sound Laberinth Silueta, Silueta Series (Laberinth Blood Imprint), 1974, 3:06 min., silent Untitled (Glass Breathing), 1975, 3:08 min., silent Burial of the Nanigo, (Woman Candle Silueta #2), 1976, 3:11 min., silent Candle Ixchell, Black Ixchell Series, 1979, 3:51 min., silent Volcan de Arena, Silueta Series, 1978, 2:08 min., silent Untitled Silueta Series, 1980, 3:07 min., silent Isla, 1981, 2:16 min., silent Untitled (Figura que parece Egypta), 1981, 5:41 min., silent Untitled (Figura, Gunpowder en los cracks), 1981, 3:09 min., silent SELECTED FILMWORKS: Ana Mendieta (1972-1981, 33 mins. total) The work of Ana Mendieta (1948-1985) expresses the pain and rupture of cultural displacement, and resonates with visceral metaphors of death, rebirth, and spiritual transformation. In her ritualistic performances and haunting earth works, she immerses or inscribes her own body within nature. Blood, fire, water, and other natural elements are essential to her emblematic, often mystical female iconography. Burial and regeneration are recurrent themes. Whether painting her body with blood, or burning, carving and inscribing female into the landscape, as in her Silueta series, Mendieta's work is infused with enormous power and poetry. |
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