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but could be understood as defining a larger philosophical approach Amy took to her filmmaking practice. Many of her films take the form of loving and attentive appreciations of people, animals, places, things, and experiences that she related to as “luxuries” for her to hold, treasure, and share, and yet which retain their essential autonomous qualities to resist complete capture, remaining “unowned” despite also being Amy’s (and ours) to behold and delight in. Two additional programs of her films will also be presented at LA Filmforum (April 2) and the UCLA Film & Television Archive (April 16). Programmed by David Lebrun and Academy Film Archive Senior Film Preservationist Mark Toscano. Note by Mark Toscano. Special thanks to David Lebrun. All films directed by Amy Halpern. All prints are courtesy of the Amy Halpern Collection at the Academy Film Archive. Maya Double- Bottomed Bowl and Vezelay Curtain are courtesy of David Lebrun. Total program runtime: 78 min.
No Supper
Harry Gamboa Jr. Mon, May 15 | 7:30pm | TMT
A few lines of text cannot justly portray the ongoing legacy of Harry Gamboa Jr. (b. 1951), the multi-disciplinary artist whose work often transcends the reality he perceives into a surreal realm that serves as a lucid gateway to alternative realities, challenging the dominant domains of art and cultural institutions, political agencies, and media outlets. Born and raised in East LA, Gamboa manifests his keen takes on complexities of Chicano politics through the bold lens of his original and idiosyncratic storytelling. His creative styles and techniques are eccentric and innovative, often employed in the radical and metaphorical performative pieces featured in his photography and video works. Through the mixture of these media, he not only redefines the stereotyped Chicano identities that were constructed by external factors of society, but also continuously challenges and re-evaluates the establishment of the conceptual or avant-garde art practice, which, since the beginning of his own practice, has belligerently excluded artists of color like himself. His short videos from the 1980s, programmed in this series, consist of his collaborative works with the members of Asco, the Los Angeles-based performance group (Harry Gamboa Jr., Willie Herrón, Glugio “Gronk” Nicandro, Patssi Valdez) co-founded by Gamboa. Captivating, dynamic, daring, and humorous, these videos are a series of mesmerizing creative forces, generated by the invigorating investigations of artists who stay inquisitive and consistently search for new artistic language and perspective. Programmed and note by Hyesung ii. All films directed by Harry Gamboa Jr. and courtesy of the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center and the UCLA Film & Television Archive. Total program runtime: 74 min. Blanx 1984. 8 min. USA. B&W. English. Digital. Vaporz 1984. 8 min. USA. Color. English. Digital. Insultan 1983. 24 min. USA. Color. English. Digital. Baby Kake 1984. 6 min. USA. Color. English. Digital. No Supper 1987. 28 min. USA. Color. English. Digital.
Access to the View 2000. 2 min. USA. Color. Sound. 16mm. Filament (The Hands) 1975. 6 min. USA. B&W. Silent. 18fps. 16mm. Slow Fireworks 2019. 2 min. USA. Color. Silent. 16mm. Pythoness 1979. 2 min. USA. B&W. Silent. 16mm. My Dear Evaporant, 2022. 6 min. USA. Color. Silent. 16mm. Pouring Grain 2008. 3 min. USA. Color. Silent. 16mm. Cheshire Smile 2012. 5 min. Color. Sound. 16mm. Maya Double-Bottomed Bowl 2014. 2 min. USA. Color. Sound. Digital. Vezelay Curtain 2019. 5 min. USA. Color. Sound. Digital. My Mink (Unowned Luxuries #2) 2019. 4 min. USA. Color. Silent. 16mm. Unowned Luxuries #3 2020. 2 min. USA. Color. Silent. 16mm. # 27 2019. 3 min. USA. Color. Silent. 16mm. 4 Fingers, 5 Toes 2022. 11 min. USA. Color. Silent. 16mm. Three-Minute Hells 2010. 14 min. USA. Color. Sound. 16mm. Elixir 2009. 7 min. USA. Color. Silent. 16mm. Chabrot 2022. 4 min. USA. B&W. Sound. 16mm.
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