• Historical Reflux (Reflujo histórico) 

  • Orders Are Orders (Las órdenes no se discuten) 

  • Missings Miss

  • Portrait/Re-treat (Re/trato)



Memory and Forgetting: Video Art in Latin America



  • Introduction
    Elena Shtromberg

    Elena Shtromberg, an associate professor of art history at the University of Utah, is co-curator of the landmark survey from which this program is drawn.

     

  • In Person
    Oscar Muñoz

This program is drawn from Memory and Forgetting, a thematic program in Video Art in Latin America, a survey of artist videos from the 1970s to today curated by Glenn Phillips and Elena Shtromberg for LAXART. It showcases the diversity of artistic reactions to colonial history, military dictatorships, and political violence and includes videos by artists from Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Nicaragua, Peru, and Uruguay who confront, intervene, and at times revise historical narratives.

Oscar Muñoz’s Re/trato (Portrait/Re-treat) will be shown beginning at 6:45 when the doors to the theater open.

—Elena Shtromberg

Films in this Screening

Portrait/Re-treat
(Re/trato)

Oscar Muñoz, Colombia, 2001

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  • 29 mins
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  • Oscar Muñoz

When Forests Shine
(Cuando los bosques brillan)

Alejandro Leonhardt, Matías Rojas, Chile, 2012

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  • Digital
  • 5 mins
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  • Alejandro Leonhardt
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  • Matías Rojas

Documents 1/29–3/29
(Documentos 1/29–3/29)

Ernesto Salmerón, Nicaragua, 2002

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  • 7 mins
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  • Ernesto Salmerón

Orders Are Orders
(Las órdenes no se discuten)

Patricia Bueno, Susana Torres, Peru, 2011

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  • 4 mins
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  • Patricia Bueno
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  • Susana Torres

Historical Reflux
(Reflujo histórico)

Alejandra Delgado, Bolivia, 2009

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  • Digital
  • 8 mins
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  • Alejandra Delgado

Casino Royale

Adela Goldbard, Mexico, 2014

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  • 3 mins
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  • Adela Goldbard

Bolivar’s Platter
(La Bandeja de Bolívar)

Juan Manuel Echavarría, Colombia, 1999

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  • 3 mins
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  • Juan Manuel Echavarría

Missings Miss

Clemente Padín, Uruguay, 1993

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  • Digital
  • 6 mins
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  • Clemente Padín

This . . . Is How Geography is Unmade
(Así . . . como la geografía se deshace)

Enrique Ramírez, Chile, 2015

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  • 5 mins
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  • Enrique Ramírez