The Front's
fourth annual open call film festival ‘Fertile Ground’ revolves around the theme
"Cultivation" and includes both short videos and video installations.
When our environment is toxic, what do we do to amend our conditions and
improve our circumstances? The idiom, “Growth takes work,” can be applied to
many areas of our lives and our societies. These films approach this idea,
whether it be through growing a garden, fostering relationships, engaging in
our communities, taking political action, or more abstract interpretations.
Work by
James Bassett, Muffin Bernstein, Ruben Castillo, Federico Cuatlacuatl, Sarah
Fox, Jezabeth Roca Gonzalez, Margaret Hull, Adam Mathieu, Anna Mortimer, Libbi
Ponce, Margaret Rorison, Dan Rule, and Katie Spragg.
jezabethroca González - Una Colección de Himnos sin Sonido (A Collection of Hymns
without sound)
"Nothing
Special Elements of Being" and "Fabrication of Self" (FOS) are
videos part of a in progress Installation, inspired and inform by hurricane
Maria and Puerto Rico my homeland. Quotidian Rhythms performed in a contact
choreographic form. The videos focus on co-dependency. The realization of human
need of others. The notion of relationships within mimicry one body is in
movement with the push of another body and nostalgic need for my homeland. The
works were made after a few months of dead end, limited contact to my family in
Puerto Rico after hurricane Maria and keep changing with the traumatic
developments post hurricane life.
My work
focuses on the impact on Latinx identity within American culture– and the
discord created by the two. I am interested in migration patterns between
Americans and Latinx and how its flux contributes to broader cultural
ramification. I want to study physical and psychological transitions that are
being developed by our forms of cultural preservation. I explore these themes
with the use of playful gestures, bodies, sound and collaborative performances
that display struggle, force and intimacy to uncover the lasting effects of
sociological impact created by thought of idealization of cultural
relationships. With the use video and photography I attempt to reconstruct and
rebuild a forced interruption due to distance.
Juried by
Kevin Baer, Vanessa Centeno, Nurhan Gokturk, Robyn LeRoy-Evans, Cristina
Molina, and Ryn Wilson.
The Front fourth
annual film fest, ‘Fertile Ground’ will be on display through August 5, 2018 at
The Front is located 4100 St. Claude Avenue, New Orleans, Louisiana 70117. Hours:
Saturdays & Sundays, 12-5pm (except opening Saturdays)
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