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NEFANDUS

EPFC | September 28th, 2015

MARVELOUS MOVIE MONDAYS!!
Guest Curator: Ian Alan Paul
This Month’s Theme: “Global Borders, Global Migrations”

For this week, we’ll be looking at “Nefandus” (2013) by the artist Carlos Motta.

Using the Don Diego river in Columbia as a backdrop in this single-channel video piece, Motta calls forth the imbricated histories of colonization, (homo)sexuality, and Christianity in South America using voice-over and poetic imagery.

Between the sexual assaults which were used as a brutal weapon of colonization, and pre-Columbian homosexual traditions in the Americas, the video explores what is described as the “territory of sodomy,” and more broadly asks how these unresolved pasts continue to echo into the present.

THE GREEN LINE

EPFC | September 18th, 2015

MARVELOUS MOVIE MONDAYS!!
Guest Curator: Ian Alan Paul
This Month’s Theme: “Global Borders, Global Migrations”

Today, we’ll be looking at “The Green Line: Sometimes doing something poetic can become political and sometimes doing something political can become poetic.” by the artist Francis Alÿs.

The work, existing somewhere between video art and performance, defamiliarizes and makes-strange the border between Palestine and Israel through Alÿs’ meandering (and dripping) walk through the interstitial territory. Traversing history, randomness, play, movement, and gesture, we are left wondering: What poetics and politics are at work here, and what differential potentials open up in the space between the two?

The Green Line on francisalys.com

EUROPLEX

EPFC | September 18th, 2015

MARVELOUS MOVIE MONDAYS!!
Guest Curator: Ian Alan Paul
This Month’s Theme: “Global Borders, Global Migrations”

Hello Echo Parkers! I’m very happy to be with you this month curating a series of films and videos that engage with the topic: “Global Borders, Global Migrations”

To get us started, I choose a poignant video work by Ursula Biemann titled “Europlex.” The video documents a section of the North African border territory between Spain and Morocco, and explores how certain confluences and frictions between various flows and circuits of movement constitutes the border-as-territory. Like her other films, “Europlex” asks us to consider the relations between bodies, spaces, and technologies in order to better understand the operations and structures of contemporary power. Enjoy!

Europlex on www.cultureunplugged.com

 

RECOGNIZABLY HUMAN / PART 1

EPFC | September 2nd, 2015

Hello, September! New month means welcoming a new guest curator to MARVELOUS MOVIE MONDAYS, our weekly online-only screening series where we bring in a new film/video artist each month to bring a bit of super-cool cinema into your Facebook feed every Monday. Please join us in welcoming to the curatorial helm…

IAN ALAN PAUL!!

Ian is a transdisciplinary artist/theorist working in the interstices of aesthetics, politics, intervention, and technology. His projects have engaged with a large variety of topics including the Mexico-U.S. border region, the Guantanamo Bay Prison, Fortress Europe, the Zapatista communities, Drones, and most recently with post-revolution/post-coup Egypt. Using documentary forms, critical fiction, hacktivism, performance, and simulation, Ian’s work simultaneously seeks to disturb, defamiliarize and explicate institutional practices of violence. As of February 2015, the FBI can neither confirm nor deny the presence of Ian’s name on any watch lists.

WELCOME, IAN!

And now, time to watch a short film he made: “Recognizably Human / Part 1” https://vimeo.com/44631867 (If you have trouble understanding the voice, you can turn subtitles on by clicking the CC button to the right of the play bar)