Agitprop Film Series
Agitprop film series begins on November 8th, 2008 with showings at 7pm and 9pm.
Please arrive on time.
The event is FREE, but please be prepared to bring donations (so that we can keep it free).
Enjoy the show!
The series is curated by :
Mauricio Chernovetzky (Mexico City, 1974). Mauricio moved to San Diego when he was eight years old. He studied literature and religion at Reed College. Upon graduating, he worked on several experimental shorts in San Francisco. Between 2001 and 2003 Mauricio studied film directing at the Lodz Film School in Poland. In 2007 he obtained a Master's degree in film production from San Diego State University. Mauricio is currently working on two feature films, while participating in an MFA program in Visual Arts at the University of California, San Diego. Mauricio's work has screened in festivals all over the world. His latest film, Cassandra, was nominated for the National Student Academy Awards, and recently received a Special Jury Prize for Creative Achievement, at the Temecula International Film Festival.
Filmography: Cassandra (2008), Apart in the World (2006), Zofia/Roza (2004)
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The Film Series:
Expect unusual, provocative work at these screenings. The Theme of the night is: Leaving Home
The film series will kick start with a showing of Cassandra (27 minutes).
Cassandra is a poetic interpretation of Euripides' Greek Tragedy, "The Trojan Women," played out on the edge of rocky desolate Mexican border town.
This will be followed by something completely different:
A Family Finds Entertainment
Directed/Edited/Starring experimental person Ryan Trecartin.
AFFE is a fucked up digital bedtime story that indulges a drag-queen-dress-up-twist on the classic coming out melodrama. In this world, populated by about 50 of Trecartin's outrageously costumed friends, every moment and sound is electronically manipulated or processed, and performances seem to be fueled by an Alice-in-Wonderland type drug that accelerates (and often reverses) every character's movement. It's like the internet, but it is SO HONEST.
Agitprop Gallery
2837 University Ave.
San Diego, CA 92104
619.384.7989