[Frameworks] Mon 5/14, 7PM - in Brooklyn, VISIONES DEL MEXICO, feat. Ron Rice, Martha Colburn, Nick Zedd, Sergio García, Caspar Stracke & Gabriela Monroy, Moira Tierney, Raul Vincent Enriquez

[LBurchill]

*We were late in posting this. Apologies.*

*MONDAY MAY 14, 7PM*

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VISIONES DEL MEXICO
MICROSCOE GALLERY in Brooklyn

Films & videos curated by Microscope
Admission $6
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*With works by: Martha Colburn, Raul Vincent Enriquez, Sergio García, Ron
Rice, Caspar Stracke & Gabriela Monroy, Moira Tierney, Nick Zedd, and others
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We indulge our current obsession with our southern neighbor – a country
neither of us have yet had the chance to visit – with a program of works
from US, European and Mexican experimental film and video artists made in
or dealing with Mexico. Collectively the works in the program span more
than 50 years, from Ron Rice’s rarely seenThe Mexican Footage filmed in the
50s, to Sergio García’s 1970 El Fin (originally in Super8) to a new video
work Cock Fight by former New York/current Mexico City resident Nick Zedd
completed this month. Featuring animation, appropriated footage,
personal/diarist, installation and documentary works by Martha Colburn,
Raul Vincent Enriquez, Sergio García, Ron Rice, Caspar Stracke &
Gabriela Monroy, Moira Tierney, Nick Zedd and others



PROGRAM includes:
(Approximately 60 minutes)

Secrets of Mexuality
by Martha Colburn, 16mm transfer to video, color, 5 min, 2002

A dense and highly detailed film exploring sexuality in the specific realms
of Mexican wrestling and kitsch paintings through rapid-fire
transformations. Much of the film is hand scratched frame by frame, hand
painted (over collage animation). This film was made as a commission by the
Mexican Composer Felipe Waller and screened live in Europe and Mexico with
live accompaniment by the Dutch group ‘Martin Altena Ensemble’.



El Fin
Director, camera and editor: Sergio GarcÌa
Super-8mm film transferred to video, color, sound, 9 min, 1970

“Synchronizes very studied images with American folk music and can be
synthesized with the mention of certain episodes juxtaposed with great ease
and an irony which is at once metonymical and direct. A man is pursued,
beaten and imprisoned by a group of soldiers. Idyllic nudes in a forest of
chaste hippie lovers. A young person smoking marijuana; the joint is
removed and he is given a Coca-Cola. A timid employee gets in a car and
drives around listening to “Adoro” by Manzanero. All presented in a
brilliant and impulsive montage.” — Jorge Ayala Blanco in Excélsior, 1971

The Mexican Footage
by Ron Rice, 16mm on 16mm, color & b/w, 10 min, 1950s

“When Ron Rice died, in Mexico, he left a dozen rolls of exposed film. This
sample contains four rolls of beautiful color and black and white, shot in
Mexico.” -- Jonas Mekas

“Penny & Brian: Lots of Love…”
by Caspar Stracke & Gabriela Monroy, video, b&w, sound, 3 minutes 2010

A film made while the filmmakers were living in Mexico for the occasion of
the marriage of filmmakers Brian Frye and Penny Lane.

Lucha Libre
by Moira Tierney, 16mm, b/w, silent, 4 minutes, 2009

Shot in El DF – Mexico City – canvas pounding and divided allegiances.

Cock Fight
by Nick Zedd, video, color, sound, 15:30 minutes, 2012

COCKFIGHT features homeless kids on the street in Tequisciapan along with
candid backstage footage of Mexican entertainment royalty Sylvia Pinal
(Simon of the Desert), singer Enrique Guzman and their daughter, singer
Alejandra Guzman. In a remote arena in Pachuca illegal cockfights wire
people up, preceding a sensational concert appearance by Alejandra Guzman
backed by Moderatto.

Also on view:
Andrew Dasburg’s Lucifer  by Raul Vincent Enriquez will be projected on
installation before and after the screening.


Microscope, 4 Charles Place, Brooklyn, NY 11221; tel:347.925.1433; nearest
subway J/M/Z Myrtle/Broadway, other options: L - Morgan Ave or Jefferson
Street
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