7th Annual Women of Color Film and Video Festival
diane celia hodges (dchodges who-is-at interchg.ubc.ca)
Mon, 11 May 1998 10:43:24 -0700
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> The Seventh Annual Women of Color Film and Video Festival
> Sovereign Images
> 1998
>
> Kresge Town Hall
> UC Santa Cruz
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> Friday, May 15 and Saturday, May 16
> Admission is Free
>
>Sponsored by The Research Cluster for the Study of Women of Color in
>Collaboration and Conflict and the Center for Cultural Studies at the
>University of California at Santa Cruz.
>
>Films and videos featured in this year's festival foreground the role of
>independent film and video by women of color in dismantling colonial
>imaginaries and recovering histories of resistance. Because 1998 marks
>several anniversaries of U.S. colonial expansion (the 100th anniversary of
>the annexation of Cuba, Guam, Hawai'i, Puerto Rico, the Philippines and
>Eastern Samoa as well as the 150th anniversary of the annexation of half
>of Mexico's territories in what is now known as the Southwest), the theme
>Sovereign Images frames our discussion of how colonized peoples resist and
>survive colonial domination and imperial rule through the production of
>counter memories and transformative imaging practices.
>
>The 1998 Women of Color Film and Video Festival will also honor veteran
>filmmakers Renee Tajima-Pena and Julie Dash, as well as feature visual
>artist Hulleah J. Tsinhnahjinnie, all of whom will be present to discuss
>their own odysseys in the history of women of color visual production in
>the U.S. The Saturday Women of Color Film and Videomakers Workshop will
>also celebrate emergent filmmakers and put these multiple generations of
>critical creativity together in dialogue.
>
>For more information and/or disability related needs, please call:
>(408) 459-3349 E-mail: wocff who-is-at cats.ucsc.edu Internet: http.www2.ucsc.edu/oc/
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>Opening Night - Friday, May 15th
>
>7:00 My America (... or Honk If You Love Buddha) (1997)
> Discussion with Renee Tajima-Pena
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>9:30 - DeColonized Bodies Queer Desire
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>B.D. Women (1994) Inge Blackman
>Sabor a Mi (1997) Claudia Morgado
>Eating Mango (1994) Mari Keiko Gonzalez
>Wavelengths (1997) Pratibha Parmar
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>Reception to Follow
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>Saturday, May 16th
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>10:00 am Women of Color Film and Videomaker Workshop with Julie Dash,
>Renee Tajima-Pena and other veteran filmmakers.
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>Spaces Limited -- Reservations Required. Contact Maylei Blackwell
>((408) 459-3349 or maylei who-is-at cats.ucsc.edu)
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>Noon Countering the Encounter -
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>Columbus on Trial (1993) Lourdes Portillo
>Nice Colored Girls (1987) Tracey Moffatt
>Couple in a Cage (1993) Coco Fusco & Paula Heredia
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>1:30 Double Crossed
>Xich-lo (1995) M. Trinh Nguyen
>Pretty Vacant (1996) Jim Mendiola
>Super Flip (1997) Celine Salazar Parrenas
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>Q & A with filmmaker
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>3:30 Mediating the Colonial Gaze
>La operacion (1982) Ana Maria Garcia
>Spirits Rising (1995) Ramona Diaz
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>5:00 Photographic Sovereignty
>Presentation by Hulleah J. Tsinhnahjinnie (Seminole, Muskogee, Dine)
>"Photographic Memoirs of an Aboriginal Savant"
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>6:30 (Dis)Covering America
>La encrucijada (1995) Rubi U. Fregoso
>Despues del terremoto(1979) Lourdes Portillo and Nina Serrano
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>Q&A with Rubi U. Fregoso
>
>7:30 Welcome and Introduction by Angela Davis
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>8:00 Memory Tracks
>Featuring the works of Julie Dash:
>Diary of an African Nun (1977)
>Four Women (1979)
>Illusions (1983).
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>9:30 Discussion with Julie Dash
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>f e s T i Va L S t a te m E n t
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>The UCSC Women of Color Film and Video Festival is now in its seventh year
>and has established itself as a crucial venue for independent exhibition
>and dialogue. Past festivals have focused on both established and
>emergent filmmakers, citizenship, belonging, displacement, indigeneity,
>queer-ness, diaspora, (in)migration, desire and diverse genealogies of
>complex politicized identities. The Festival has a history of combining
>film exhibition, scholarship, pedagogy, and lively discussion on such
>charged and crucial issues as the dismantling of affirmative action,
>diverse forms of resistance, racialized legislation in California, and the
>ways in power is organized and mediated through social categories of race,
>class, gender and sexuality. Over the past seven year's each annual
>organizing committee has taken up an individual theme as a vantage point
>from which to examine and discuss the aesthetic, social and political
>grounds upon which Women of Color are imaged as well as the modes of
>production, circulation, distribution and reception of those images.
>These discussions have not assumed an easy relationship to the category,
>Women of Color, but have interrogated, invented new understandings, and
>innovated the means through which the political projects of Women of Color
>are continually renegotiated and recrafted.
>
>In 1992 the festival was founded by Margaret Daniel, who was the festival
>director for the first three years. The First Annual Woman of Color Film
>and Video Festival, "The Colors of Her Language," was founded on her
>notion that, "If you can conceive of an image of your cultural reality but
>do not see it reflected around you, then create it." As Daniel noted in
>that year's program, "film is a medium which has the capability to
>encompass a variety of academic disciplines and to transform them." The
>4th Annual Festival, "Out of Bounds/Subversive Geographies," marked a
>critical departure from the festival's first three years as it grew and
>transformed through the vision of collective organization by members of
>the Research Cluster for the Study of Women of Color in Collaboration and
>Conflict. Through the dedication, passion and labor, the festival
>continues and has had the honor of previewing a number of celebrated works
>before they were shown in national festivals. It was also the first
>festival to host a discussion with the co-producers and co-directors of
>the Audre Lorde Documentary Project. The festival has been important in
>creating a space where women of color film and video makers, students,
>community members, artists, film scholars, cultural critics and media arts
>personnel can meet and engage each other in an open dialogue and
>innovative format. Over the seven years of the festival, we have welcomed
>dozens of women of color filmmakers and scholars to both present and
>discuss their work. Among them are: Ada Gay Griffin, Michelle Parkerson,
>Lourdes Portillo, Renee Tajima, Rosa Linda Fregoso, Celine Salazar
>Parrenas, Dawn Suggs, Desi del Valle, Joyce Lee, Phyllis J. Jackson, Lok
>C. Siu, Mary Guzman, Ela Troyano, Crystal Griffith, Sydney Cliffton, Osa
>Hidalgo de la Riva, Frances Negron-Muntaner, Lily Ng, Madeleine Lim, Etang
>Inyang, H. Len Keller, La Trice Dixon, Tina Rizzo, Arlene Bowman, Kagendo
>Murungi, Iris Morales and young teenage filmmakers who are part of the
>video revolution have come to present their work throughout the years.
>This year's Festival committee continues this vital project.
>
>The theme of this year's festival is Sovereign Images to mark and contest
>two anniversaries of U.S. imperial expansion: the 1848 annexation of half
>of Mexico's territories in what is now the U.S. Southwest and the 1898
>annexations of Cuba, Eastern Samoa, Guam, Hawai'i, the Philippines, and
>Puerto Rico. Given our political context in California, we call attention
>to the violent histories which inform U.S. relations with colonized
>peoples both within and beyond U.S. borders. This year's festival will
>feature films and videos that foreground the role of independent film and
>video by women of color in dismantling colonial imaginaries and recovering
>histories of resistance. The program provides a forum for discussion on
>how we are able to resist and survive colonial domination through the
>production of counter memories and transformative imaging practices, such
>as the work of Hulleah J. Tsinhnanjinnie's "Photographic Memoirs of an
>Aboriginal Savant." We look to films like Ana Maria Garcia's La operacion,
>M. Trinh Nguyen's Xich-lo, and Lourdes Portillo's Despues del terremoto
>because they engage directly with the legacies of U.S. funded military
>invasions and geopolitical interventions. Alongside these works, we
>present Julie Dash's Illusions and Ramona Diaz's Spirits Rising to
>highlight the roles of mass media and popular culture in the construction
>of women of color identities.
>
>This year we are pleased to be featuring veteran filmmakers Julie Dash and
>Renee Tajima-Pena as well as visual artist Hulleah J. Tsinhnahjinnie, who
>will help us to frame a retrospective of the festival's history and a
>longer tradition of film and videomaking by Women of Color. We also honor
>and support emergent film and videomakers through The Women of Color Film
>and Videomakers Workshop on Saturday morning which we hope will put
>multiple generations of critical creativity together in dialogue. As part
>of the UCSC Women of Color in Conflict and Collaboration Research Cluster
>and the faculty sponsorship of Angela Davis, our vision is to provide a
>space for watching works by film and video artists and to locate these
>works through broad issues of production, distribution, exhibition and the
>racialized/gendered contexts we live in through conversations with
>filmmakers, scholars, and the audience.
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>The 1998 Festival Programming Committee
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diane celia hodges
faculty of education, centre for the study of curriculum and
instruction,
university of british columbia
vancouver, bc canada
snailmail: 3519 Hull Street
Vancouver, BC, Canada V5N 4R8