The Mexperimental Cinema
dal 26/5/2000 al 6/6/2000
Segnalato da
26/5/2000
The Mexperimental Cinema
Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao
A roller-skating nun spray paints prophecies of the death of rock and roll on the walls of Mexico City high-rises. The angular leaves of the maguey plant dance to the rhythm of Shostakovichs 11th Symphony. A feminist
prankster wreaks havoc in
a monastic order by
adding LSD to the friars drinking supply.
Experimental Mexican cinema jests with
established forms and anarchically subverts the
conventional. The Mexperimental Cinema
begins in the aftermath of the Mexican
Revolution, when the movie camera became a
tool for the nationalistic, utopian projects of
artists and intellectuals. The series extends the
traditionally exclusive North American and
European focus of avant-garde film and features
a range of alternative filmmaking practices in
Mexico, tracing the influence of Sergei
Eisenstein and Luis Bunuels Mexican periods
and examining Mexican experimental cinemas
affinities to the films of European Surrealists,
abstract animation, and more recent
oppositional film practices from Latin America
and beyond.
The series moves from the countercultural works
of the 1960s to the newest generation of
noncommercial, formal experiments and also
features works by U.S. experimental filmmakers
for whom Mexico was a site of exploration and a
source of mythic imagery.
The Mexperimental Cinema is guest-curated by
Jesse Lerner, a documentary filmmaker based
in Los Angeles and an instructor at Pitzer
College, a member of the Claremont colleges;
and Rita Gonzalez, a videomaker and a student
in UCLAs Ph.D. program in Critical Studies at
the School of Cinema/Television. The program
is organized by John G. Hanhardt, Senior
Curator of Film and Media Arts, and
Maria-Christina Villasenor, Assistant Curator of
Film and Media Arts, Solomon R. Guggenheim
Museum.
Address
GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM BILBAO Abandoibarra Et. 2 48001 Bilbao
Opening hours
Tuesday to Sunday: 10 a.m.-8 p.m. Monday:
closed.
Information
Museum information desk: (+34) 944359080, Tuesday to Sunday from 10:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.
Useful Telephone Numbers: Offices: (+34) 944359000.
Admission fees
Adults: 800 ptas / 4.81 euro Students and Senior citizens: 400 ptas / 2.40 euro Children under 12 accompanied: no charge. Groups (of more than 20): 600 ptas / 3.61 euro