I'll Make You A Movie After I Eat
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Curated by Josh Rios and Anthony Romero, I’ll make you a movie after I eat was a series of four screenings celebrating Chicana/o moving image works. Each screening was accompanied by a public presentation, performance, or talk in order to provide further context. The screenings took place between October and November 2014 at Gallery 400 (UIC) and Comfort Station. More information regarding the screenings can be found on the Gallery 400 blog. The list of dates, activities, and films can be found below.
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Curated by Josh Rios and Anthony Romero, I’ll make you a movie after I eat was a series of four screenings celebrating Chicana/o moving image works. Each screening was accompanied by a public presentation, performance, or talk in order to provide further context. The screenings took place between October and November 2014 at Gallery 400 (UIC) and Comfort Station. More information regarding the screenings can be found on the Gallery 400 blog. The list of dates, activities, and films can be found below.
University of
Illinois schedule
Monday, October 6,
6pm:
Yo Soy Chicano (I am
Chicano), 59 mins, Jesus
Treviño, 1972. Yo Soy Chicano is a KCET produced documentary portrayal
of the Chicano/a experience, from its pre-Columbian roots to the
Mexican-American struggle for civil rights in the early 1970s.
Chicana, 23 mins, Sylvia Morales, 1979.
Chicana traces the history of Chicana and Mexican-origin women from
pre-Columbian times to the present. It covers women's roles in Aztec society,
their participation in the 1810 struggle for Mexican independence, and their
leadership in contemporary civil rights causes.
After the screening
Leonard Ramirez, coauthor of the book Chicanas of 18th Street, joined us for a
post-film discussion, which helped to ground the films in the actual
experiences and real circumstances that many audience members had first-hand
knowledge of.
Monday, October 13,
6pm:
Chulas Fronteras, 58 mins, Les Blank, 1976. Chulas
Fronteras is a complex, insightful look at the Chicano/a experience as
mirrored in the lives and music of the most acclaimed Norteño musicians of the
Texas-Mexican border, including Flaco Jimenez and Lydia Mendoza.
Previous to the
screening Lisa Junkin-Lopez, interim director of the Jane Addams-Hull House
Museum, presented on the Hull-House Kilns, an historic project of the
Hull-House settlement and an early example of intercultural exchange in
Chicago's Mexican community.
Comfort Station
schedule
Sunday, October 26,
7pm:
Born in East L.A. (1987) 85 mins. Cheech Marin writes,
directs and stars in Born in East L.A., a hip, outrageous comedy based on his
best-selling record parody. The story follows Rudy (Marin), an American of
Hispanic descent, whose south-of-the-border looks show him no mercy during an
immigration raid in a migrant worker factory. As his luck goes, he is caught
with neither money nor his ID and is deported to Mexico - without speaking a
word of Spanish! Rudy is in for a crazy ride as he tries every legal, and
illegal, scheme he can think of to get back home to the States.
Sunday, September 14,
7pm:
Frontierland /
Fronterilandia (1995) 77
mins. Frontierland / Fronterilandia examines multiple points of
cultural contact between the United States and Mexico, from South Carolina's
kitschy “South of the Border” tourist complex, to a Mexican Beatles cover band.
Working at the boundaries of experimental film and documentary travelogue, the
film weaves together found footage, interviews, performance art, and music
video to produce a masterful commentary revealing the borderlands as a
laboratory of hybridity for both nations.
Preceding the
screening of Frontierland / Fronterilandia we performed "Tortilla
Manifest," a theatrical reading about Chicana/o potentiality and heating
tortillas.