Événement

Voyage to the Land of Speaking Blood - Part Two - Ruins & Magnavoz

Thursday May, 17th, 2018 - 8:00PM
$15 General / $13 VPES
Doors 7:30 P.M. / Screening begins 8:00 P.M.

<<<Voyage to the Land of Speaking Blood>>>

A three-part series at the Velaslavasay Panorama exploring themes of tourism, documentary, surrealism & archaeology in Mexican cinema.

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Ruins
By Jesse Lerner
1999, 16mm, b/w, 78 minutes

Surveying representative moments from the history of Mesoamerican antiquarianism, this experimental documentary suggests how diplomacy and Pan-Americanism framed the recontexualization of archeological objects as art. Part faked newsreel, part diffusionist rant, Ruins uses appropriated sounds and images to contemplate a history of appropriated objects. The film visits with Brigido Lara, master forger, and suggests parallels between the documentary film and the fake.

With Sylvanus Morley, Maria Elena Pat, Filiberto Sanchez Varela, Brigido Lara and Alice Dixon Le Plongeon.

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Magnavoz

By Jesse Lerner
2006, 16 mm b/w, 25 min. 33 sec.

Magnavoz is an experimental adaptation of Xavier Icazas speculative rant on the future of post-revolutionary Mexico. Bringing together noisy broadcasts from atop the volcanoes, raucous bacchanalia at popular watering holes and a series of apocalyptic, hypernationalistic pronouncements, the meditation is timely and prescient, though it was written more than eighty years ago.

Magnavoz es una adaptación experimental de una diatriba que especula sobre lo que fue el futuro del México de la posrevolución. Reúne transmisiones ruidosas desde las cumbres de los volcanes; bacanales caóticas en salones populares, y una serie de pronunciamientos apocalípticos e híper nacionalistas. Una reflexión que sigue siendo relevante y que prefigura lo que se dio más de ochenta años después.

Films will be projected by Filmmaker, Archivist & Projectionist John Cannizzaro of Smokehouse Films, a collection of 16mm & 8mm films.

Jesse Lerner is a documentary filmmaker, curator, and writer based in Los Angeles.