Artists' Television Access

Author: Fara

  • Cine+Mas: CRAVING CUBA- San Francisco Latino Film Festival

    Filmmakers in attendance

    Craving Cuba
    USA, 2016, Documentary-Society
    Directors: Zuzy Martin Lynch & Rick Lynch
    65 min
    English with some Spanish- subtitled

    Shown with short film:

    “Craving Cuba is a documentary film about Cuban-Americans and their complicated relationship with Cuba. This is a story about identity, family, exile and hope. Follow the journey of a Cuban-American woman who was born in New Jersey to Cuban-exiles and has never been to Cuba. Although she has always felt very American, there was always a strong pull to the other half of her identity. Like most in the exiled community, she grew up not being able to go to Cuba. After the December 17th announcement by President Barack Obama, everything changes.

    The directors, Bay Area filmmakers, interview singer/actor Carlos Ponce, NBC- news anchor Jessica Aguirre, San Francisco District Attorney George Gascon, Soledad O’Brien, and other notable Cuban-Americans today.

    She interviews people throughout the US, strives to balance between conservative and liberal views, questions stereotypes and explores what it means to be Cuban-American in a time when the whole world is obsessed with Cuba.”

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    ” Antojandose de Cuba es un documental sobre los cubano- estadounidenses y su complicada relación con Cuba . Esta es una historia sobre la identidad , la familia, el exilio y la esperanza. Sigue el viaje de una mujer cubano- americana que nació en Nueva Jersey a cubanos- exiliados y nunca ha estado en Cuba . a pesar de que siempre se ha sentido muy americana , siempre había un fuerte tirón a la otra mitad de su identidad . Como la mayoría de la comunidad exiliada , creció sin la posibilidad de ir a Cuba . Después del anuncio del 17 de diciembre por el presidente Barack Obama , todo cambia .

    Se entrevista a personas en todos los EE.UU. , se esfuerza por equilibrar entre los puntos de vista, los estereotipos, puntos de vista conservadores y liberales y explora lo que significa ser cubano- estadounidense en un momento en que todo el mundo está obsesionado con Cuba ” .

  • Other Cinema: “HIDDEN RHYTHMS” + JEREMY ROURKE + COLBURN +

    An eye-poppin’ program of ‘Pixilation Prodigies’ that includes TWO live performances!!: Bryan Boyce, Adrianne Finelli, and octogenerian Jackie Jones stage a shadow-play that animates the “Hidden Rhythms” of the grand dame’s singing saw…AND Jeremy Rourke debuts his Djerassi-seeded magnum opus Falling Piano Piece, another record-toppling live-musical animation, a genre he practically re- invents every outing! PLUS North American premiere of Martha Colburn’s sex-ed “Pug Adventures”, West Coast debut of Kelly Gallagher’s latest (on Lucy Parsons), Kelly Sears’ “In the Vicinity”, Janie Geiser’s “Ghost Algebra”, Ja’Tovia Gary/Alice Coltrane’s “An Ecstatic Experience”, James Braithwaite’s “I Met the Walrus”, and a pair of brain-fryers by Jake Fried. Free toast’n’jam of course.
    x~peri~mental animation

  • Three Freaks

    Three multi-disciplinary artists share space for a one night performance exhibiting slices of their ongoing works. Ian Vanek debuts a ritualistic trance performance consisting of a projected short film loop and its accompanying live soundtrack; Cherry Pop 5 creates sounds set astray in a wash of previously unheard random cassettes chosen by candle light; and Ricki Dwyer ends their Mid-west embroidery tour where they were copying individuals text based tattoos to distribute as parches for other people’s clothes. This night is a meditation on the practice of self presentation and collective memory.
    **IAN VANEK “Return to the Horse People” 2016

    A ritualistic trance performance consisting of a projected short film loop and it’s  accompanying live sound track. The performance is twenty two minutes in length.
    After more than twenty years of avoiding Yakima, Washington Ian Vanek returns to his birth place to take an impression, The collaged experience gives texture to memories associated with trauma, ritual and growth.
    **Cherry Pop 5 is a nomadic painter, sculptor, and performance artist with musical roots in raw minimal house, avant-garde microsound tape compositions, tape loop manipulation accompaniments and live sample based street performances. Cherry Pop 5 is a recently published artist by the predominantly experimental noise traveling tape label All Hell.
    Performing with new material, Cherry Pop 5 manipulates the ambience of a single shared space in our collective experience of existing in a blur. While blending frequencies of fear and the inner child, vignetting light perpetually reverberates off of every assuming object in the peripheral vision. Sounds are set astray in a wash of previously unheard random cassettes chosen in synchronistic order by candle light. The sample built soundscapes re-animate half hallucinatory grey dreams of the audience; reminiscent to images of Daido Moriyami’s Farewell To Photography, Delia Derbyshire’s experimentation in loops, and the dusty magical aesthetic of childhood imagination in Jan Svankmajer’s Alice.
    **Ricki Dwyer is a San Francisco based artist whose work swings between social practice and craft; employing the history of textiles to develop work with an underlying thread of building community.  Recently their projects have included building a giant loom to teach radical community weaving, collaborating on an intersectional transportation Rail/Sail vehicle, and going on tour with a sewing machine to perform as
    documenter of the Mid-West’s text-based tattoos. This year they were faculty for the inaugural session of Black Mountain School, printmaking faculty for the Oxbow school summer session, and resident artist of Front Space gallery in Kansas City, and Standard Projects in Wisconsin.
    Join them in celebrating the end of a month long tour through the Mid-West with performance piece Tim Kerr Made Me Do It. While traveling with a sewing machine they installed in galleries, venues, bars and shows to embroider individual’s text based tattoos. In following cities these embroideries were then distributed as patches for other peoples clothing. This will be the tour’s final performance, exhibiting relics of the experience and remaining patches.