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Please join us at dusk for light refreshments to celebrate the opening of this month’s window installation. The artist will be present to discuss her work and her recent residency at Ox-Bow.

Beginning with a photograph found in a de-accessioned library book celebrating early Nazi infrastructure (published in Germany, 1934), Unfortunate Monument aims to pull forward a multiplicity of moments embedded in this singular image.

For the ATA Window, a projection of the image, doubled, is paired with German composer Paul Hindemith’s Trauermusik (Mourning Music). Striking in its cartoon-like style, the monument in the photograph gives clues to its origin by way of date, language, and its incriminating crown of shovels. As with all the other images in the de-accessioned book, it is a pristine, two-sided paste-in card with German text on the reverse. This card, in particular, celebrates the completion of the newest German motorway. The final sentence of the text on the card roughly translates: Further Works are in Preparation. Our ominous understanding of the image is connected to our present location in time, as we witnessed these industrious German shovels dig pits for mass graves just a few years after they contributed to modern infrastructure.

Through the quiet, mournful tone of the music coupled with the image projection, Unfortunate Monument aims to reconstruct a new monument in the storefront window on Valencia Street. A temporary monument that speaks to the power of time-construction in collective social histories.

Amanda Curreri is an interdisciplinary artist based in New York City. Her posi-active body of work is focused on renegotiating the routine ways we understand space and language. She recently received a Joan Mitchell Fellowship and Stipend to attend OxBow’s Artist Residency (MI), and is preparing for her Spring 2010 solo exhibition at Ping Pong Gallery (SF). If you like biscotti, she urges you to participate in an artwork on view at the Brooklyn Historical Society and accessible online at: www.joesbiscottirecipe.blogspot.com.

SFBMA showcases video representing bike and bike messenger culture.

*presented by Artists’ Television Access’ Global Undergrounds series, Workers International League, and Carlos Club*
Thursday, July 24 – 7 pm barbecue and drinks, 8:30 pm showtime, free

*The Last Zapatistas, Forgotten Heroes* is the chilling testimony of the soldiers who fought beside their General Emiliano Zapata in the 1910 Mexican Revolution.

Almost one hundred years later, these survivors of the legendary Liberation Army of the South reveal a truth not to be found in any book. They speak of the failure of the Revolution and of today’s neoliberal governments, of the agrarian and ecological disaster threatening their country and of imminent civil war if the Zapatista ideals they represent continue to be ignored.

These men and women are chapters of unjust history, abandoned wisdom, banners for Mexico’s underprivileged …. they are the Forgotten Heroes. Directed by Francesco Taboada Tabone, 2002, 70 minutes

(This documentary includes the historic encounter between members of the Zapatista National Liberation Army and the Zapatista veterans).

*OFFICIAL SELECTION*

   – Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival
   – Festival de Cine Latino de San Francisco
   – Festival Dias de Cine Latinoamericano, Hamburgo, Alemania
   – Newport Beach International Film Festival
   – Pennsylvania Internacional Film Festival
   – Festival de Cine Documental de Belo Horizonte, Brazil
   – XXVIII Jornada Internacional de Cinema da Bahia, Brazil
   – Muestra Internacional de Cine Documental de Bogotá, Colombia
   – Festival de Cine Latino Sí-Sí-Cine, Toronto, Canada
   – Festival del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano de la Habana, Cuba
   – Nominated for the Ariel , the highest award (equivalent to the Oscar in
   the United States) given by the Mexican Academy of Film Science and Art, in
   the long documentary category.
   – El estreno en Cines fue el 17 de abril de 2001 en la Cineteca Nacional
   en Ciudad de México.

*Los Últimos Zapatistas, Héroes Olvidados*

*Los Últimos Zapatistas, Héroes Olvidados* muestra los escalofriantes testimonios de aquellos soldados que hicieron la Revolución Mexicana, iniciada en 1910, al lado del General Emiliano Zapata.

Casi cien años después, los sobrevivientes del legendario Ejercito Libertador del Sur revelan una verdad que no aparece en los libros. Hombres que lo mismo combatieron a Porfirio Díaz que a Salinas de Gortari hoy levantan por ultima vez su voz. Hablan del fracaso de la Revolución y de los actuales gobiernos neoliberales, del desastre agrario y ecológico que amenaza al país y de la inminencia de una guerra civil si los ideales que ellos representan quedan en el olvido.

Estos hombres son capítulos de injusta historia, sabiduría abandonada, estandartes del México Profundo, ellos son, los héroes Olvidados.Dirigida* por Francesco Taboada Tabone, 2002, 70 minutos

(Este documental incluye el histórico encuentro entre miembros del EZLN y veteranos zapatistas)

SELECCION OFICIAL

   – Festival Internacional de Cine Latino de Los Angeles
   – Festival Internacional de Cine de Pennsylvannia, EU
   – Festival de Cine Latino de San Francisco, EU
   – Festival Internacional de Cine de Newport Beach, EU
   – Festival Internacional de Cine Latino de Nueva York
   – Festival de Cine Latino de Cambridge, EU
   – Festival de Cine de las Americas en Austin, EU
   – Festival de Cine Latino de Toronto, Canada
   – Festival Días de Cine Latinoamericano de Hamburgo, Alemania
   – Festival del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano de la Habana, Cuba
   – Festival de Cine documental de Belo Horizonte, Brasil
   – Muestra Internacional de Cine Documental de Bogotá, Colombia
   – XXVIII Jornada Internacional de Cine de Bahía, Brasil.