The UCLA Film and Television Archive and Chicano Studies Research Center present two nights of Raphael Montañez Ortiz’s films, music and video art. Ortiz is a key figure of the 1960s international “Destruction in Art” movement, U.S.-based Guerrilla Theater and Latino art (including as founder of El Museo del Barrio). His extensive media collection — archived at UCLA — includes footage documenting the emergence of performance, installation art and experimental music in New York City. This two-night program surveys the full scope of his media art since the late 1950s.
The practice of recycling cinematographic images is almost as old as cinema itself. While it has frequently had a utilitarian, documentary or ideological function, it is also intimately tied to the history of avant-garde cinema since at least the 1930s. While many found footage films and artists associated with the practice are relatively well known, less is known about the nature and provenance of the images that are found and repurposed.
Light Cone presents a selection of recently digitized films and videos by Raphael Montañez Ortizand proposes a conversation with the artist in the company of art historians Chon Noriega and Kevin Hatch.
Dates:
Monday, March 22, 2021 (All day) to Sunday, March 28, 2021 (All day)
