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FILM/VIDEO: Experimental and documentary filmmaker and CalArts faculty Adele Horne will be screening her work, including her newest piece And Again which is work in progress.

Adele Horne makes documentary, essayistic, and experimental films and videos. Her film The Tailenders was broadcast nationally on the PBS program P.O.V. in July 2006 and won Film Independent’s “Axium Truer than Fiction Award” in the 2007 Spirit Awards.

Horne's film and videos have been shown at the Museum of Modern Art's Documentary Fortnight, the Rotterdam International Film Festival, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Morelia International Film Festival, Athens International Film Festival, San Francisco International Film Festival, Images Festival, Flaherty Film Seminar, Anthology Film Archive, Pacific Film Archive, San Francisco Cinematheque, Los Angeles FilmForum, PDX Film Festival, Nashville Film Festival, Chicago Underground Film Festival, the Mix Festival, Women in the Director's Chair, and Mad Cat Women's Film and Video Festival, among other venues.

COMMUNITY / INSTITUTE / FILM/VIDEO: Organized by Nancy Buchanan, Christine Wertheim and students from CalArts ID 517. For further information: buchanan@calarts.edu, wertheim@calarts.edu. This event is free of charge and open to the public.

This symposium focuses on social, geographical and conceptual arenas where the power of women to speak on behalf of themselves and their peers is strongly, radically asserted through works of art and activism.

12.00-12.30 - Introduction by artist Andrea Bowers

12.30- 2.30 - Lourdes Portillo will discuss the making of her film, Senorita Extraviada, Missing Young Woman, a documentary examining the mystery of the hundreds of young women murdered in Juarez, Mexico.

+ Claudia Bernardi will talk about a collaborative mural, Tapestry of History, which she organized with Guatemalan survivors of the massacres that took place during the long attacks on indigenous villagers. These women came from Chajul, Nebaj, Chimaltenango, Ixil, Ixcan and Rabinal to share their stories.

3.00- 5.00 - Andrea Liss, Art Historian/Cultural Theorist and author of Feminist Art and the Maternal will discuss the radical mother-artists featured in her book.

+ Activist Margaret Prescod will discuss the work of  grassroots women in her presentation, Women, Haiti and the Struggle for Democracy.

There will be additional short presentations by the organizers.

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Andrea Bowers is a Los Angeles artist whose work focuses primarily on direct action and non-violent civil disobedience enacted though the lives of women. Working mainly in video, drawing and bookmaking, her work explores the intersections between art and archival processes, and between aesthetics and political protest.

Claudia Bernardi is an internationally renowned artist who works in the fields of human rights and social justice. She has witnessed monstrous human tragedies, yet speaks of these horrors in ways that communicate the persistence of hope, undeniable integrity, and necessary remembrance. In 2004, Bernardi was awarded grants to support her project to create an Art School/ Open Studio in Perquin, a rural community in El Salvador.

Andrea Liss is The Contemporary Art Historian and Cultural Theorist at California State University, San Marcos, where her teaching focuses on feminist art and theory, photographic theory and representations of memory and history. In addition to Feminist Art and the Maternal (2009) she has published Trespassing through Shadows: Memory, Photography and the Holocaust (1998).

Lourdes Portillo is a Mexico-born, San Francisco-based filmmaker whose work examines issues pertaining to Latino and Latin American culture, society and politics through a richly varied range of forms, from investigative documentary to satirical video-film collage, often combining the personal and the political in a radical, idiosyncratic way. Over three decades, she has completed more than a dozen films, including Las Madres: The Mothers of Plaza de Mayo (1986), La Ofrenda: The Days of the Dead (1988), The Devil Never Sleeps (1994) and Señorita Extraviada (2001), that have received awards around the world.

Margaret Prescod, a community activist for women's rights and against racism for three decades, hosts the morning show “Sojourner Truth” on KPFK Radio.  An immigrant from Barbados in the Caribbean, Margaret spearheads work in support of grassroots people in Haiti. The author of “Black Women: Bringing It All Back Home,” Margaret co-coordinates the Global Women's Strike (GWS) in the US under the anti-war theme "Invest in Caring not Killing.” Margaret led the lobby efforts that won the UN decision that governments should measure and value women's unwaged work, and works in support of mothers' right to welfare and of mothers' reuniting with children unjustly taken by officials who confuse poverty with neglect.  

FILM/VIDEO: Award-winning independent filmmaker Lourdes Portillo will introduce and discuss her film Señorita Extraviada (Missing Young Woman, 2001).

Lourdes Portillo is a Mexico-born, San Francisco-based filmmaker whose work examines issues pertaining to Latino and Latin American culture, society and politics through a richly varied range of forms, from investigative documentary to satirical video-film collage, often combining the personal and the political in a radical, idiosyncratic way.

“Señorita Extraviada is a haunting investigation into an unspeakable crime wave amid the disorders and corruption of one of the biggest border towns in the world.” – PBS

FILM/VIDEO: A group show of films created by students of CalArts Film & Video department.

FILM/VIDEO: THE ANIMATION SHOW OF SHOWS is a program of new animated short films selected from major animation festivals around the world. In 1998, Ron Diamond, former producer of The International Tournée of Animation and The Animation Celebration, recognized a noticeable lack of animated short films in the theatrical circuit. He set out to curate a collection of significant artistic and narrative shorts from those he had seen during the past year at major animation festivals.

Screenings of each new edition of The Show of Shows begin in October, just after the close of the animation festival season. The films are presented in 35mm and High Definition at special screenings for animation and film industry professionals who might not otherwise have the opportunity to see these works in their original format, if at all. Past programs have included numerous films that have gone on to receive Academy Award nominations, including four Oscar winners — The Danish Poet, Ryan, Harvie Krumpet, Father and Daughter, and La Maison en Petits Cubes. The selections range from traditional narrative and character-driven CGI to more experimental works by directors such as Gianluigi Toccafondo, Jerzy Kucia, Piotr Dumala, and Steve Woloshen.

RON DIAMOND is the founder and Executive Producer of Acme Filmworks, Inc. and co-founder and President of Animation World Network. He produced the Academy Award-nominated short film Nibbles (2003) and the animated feature film Drawn From Memory (1995).  Diamond has lectured at leading animation schools and has served as a juror and guest speaker at numerous film events. He was also the executive producer of  “Drew Carey’s Green Screen Show.”

FILM/VIDEO: An experimental performance of music, dance and live animation, examining the themes of consumerism and consumption in society.

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