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The Seventh Annual Women of Color Film and Video Festival
Sovereign Images
1998
Kresge Town Hall
UC Santa Cruz
Friday, May 15 and Saturday, May 16
Admission is Free
Sponsored by The Research Cluster for the Study of Women of Color in
Collaboration and Conflict and the Center for Cultural Studies at the
University of California at Santa Cruz.
Films and videos featured in this year's festival foreground the role of
independent film and video by women of color in dismantling colonial
imaginaries and recovering histories of resistance. Because 1998 marks
several anniversaries of U.S. colonial expansion (the 100th anniversary of
the annexation of Cuba, Guam, Hawai'i, Puerto Rico, the Philippines and
Eastern Samoa as well as the 150th anniversary of the annexation of half
of Mexico's territories in what is now known as the Southwest), the theme
Sovereign Images frames our discussion of how colonized peoples resist and
survive colonial domination and imperial rule through the production of
counter memories and transformative imaging practices.
The 1998 Women of Color Film and Video Festival will also honor veteran
filmmakers Renee Tajima-Pena and Julie Dash, as well as feature visual
artist Hulleah J. Tsinhnahjinnie, all of whom will be present to discuss
their own odysseys in the history of women of color visual production in
the U.S. The Saturday Women of Color Film and Videomakers Workshop will
also celebrate emergent filmmakers and put these multiple generations of
critical creativity together in dialogue.
For more information and/or disability related needs, please call:
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Opening Night - Friday, May 15th
7:00 My America (... or Honk If You Love Buddha) (1997)
Discussion with Renee Tajima-Pena
9:30 - DeColonized Bodies Queer Desire
B.D. Women (1994) Inge Blackman
Sabor a Mi (1997) Claudia Morgado
Eating Mango (1994) Mari Keiko Gonzalez
Wavelengths (1997) Pratibha Parmar
Reception to Follow
Saturday, May 16th
10:00 am Women of Color Film and Videomaker Workshop with Julie Dash,
Renee Tajima-Pena and other veteran filmmakers.
Spaces Limited -- Reservations Required. Contact Maylei Blackwell
((408) 459-3349 or [EMAIL PROTECTED])
Noon Countering the Encounter -
Columbus on Trial (1993) Lourdes Portillo
Nice Colored Girls (1987) Tracey Moffatt
Couple in a Cage (1993) Coco Fusco & Paula Heredia
1:30 Double Crossed
Xich-lo (1995) M. Trinh Nguyen
Pretty Vacant (1996) Jim Mendiola
Super Flip (1997) Celine Salazar Parrenas
Q & A with filmmaker
3:30 Mediating the Colonial Gaze
La operacion (1982) Ana Maria Garcia
Spirits Rising (1995) Ramona Diaz
5:00 Photographic Sovereignty
Presentation by Hulleah J. Tsinhnahjinnie (Seminole, Muskogee, Dine)
"Photographic Memoirs of an Aboriginal Savant"
6:30 (Dis)Covering America
La encrucijada (1995) Rubi U. Fregoso
Despues del terremoto(1979) Lourdes Portillo and Nina Serrano
Q&A with Rubi U. Fregoso
7:30 Welcome and Introduction by Angela Davis
8:00 Memory Tracks
Featuring the works of Julie Dash:
Diary of an African Nun (1977)
Four Women (1979)
Illusions (1983).
9:30 Discussion with Julie Dash
f e s T i Va L S t a te m E n t
The UCSC Women of Color Film and Video Festival is now in its seventh year
and has established itself as a crucial venue for independent exhibition
and dialogue. Past festivals have focused on both established and
emergent filmmakers, citizenship, belonging, displacement, indigeneity,
queer-ness, diaspora, (in)migration, desire and diverse genealogies of
complex politicized identities. The Festival has a history of combining
film exhibition, scholarship, pedagogy, and lively discussion on such
charged and crucial issues as the dismantling of affirmative action,
diverse forms of resistance, racialized legislation in California, and the
ways in power is organized and mediated through social categories of race,
class, gender and sexuality. Over the past seven year's each annual
organizing committee has taken up an individual theme as a vantage point
from which to examine and discuss the aesthetic, social and political
grounds upon which Women of Color are imaged as well as the modes of
production, circulation, distribution and reception of those images.
These discussions have not assumed an easy relationship to the category,
Women of Color, but have interrogated, invented new understandings, and
innovated the means through which the political projects of Women of Color
are continually renegotiated and recrafted.
In 1992 the festival was founded by Margaret Daniel, who was the festival
director for the first three years. The First Annual Woman of Color Film
and Video Festival, "The Colors of Her Language," was founded on her
notion that, "If you can conceive of an image of your cultural reality but
do not see it reflected around you, then create it." As Daniel noted in
that year's program, "film is a medium which has the capability to
encompass a variety of academic disciplines and to transform them." The
4th Annual Festival, "Out of Bounds/Subversive Geographies," marked a
critical departure from the festival's first three years as it grew and
transformed through the vision of collective organization by members of
the Research Cluster for the Study of Women of Color in Collaboration and
Conflict. Through the dedication, passion and labor, the festival
continues and has had the honor of previewing a number of celebrated works
before they were shown in national festivals. It was also the first
festival to host a discussion with the co-producers and co-directors of
the Audre Lorde Documentary Project. The festival has been important in
creating a space where women of color film and video makers, students,
community members, artists, film scholars, cultural critics and media arts
personnel can meet and engage each other in an open dialogue and
innovative format. Over the seven years of the festival, we have welcomed
dozens of women of color filmmakers and scholars to both present and
discuss their work. Among them are: Ada Gay Griffin, Michelle Parkerson,
Lourdes Portillo, Renee Tajima, Rosa Linda Fregoso, Celine Salazar
Parrenas, Dawn Suggs, Desi del Valle, Joyce Lee, Phyllis J. Jackson, Lok
C. Siu, Mary Guzman, Ela Troyano, Crystal Griffith, Sydney Cliffton, Osa
Hidalgo de la Riva, Frances Negron-Muntaner, Lily Ng, Madeleine Lim, Etang
Inyang, H. Len Keller, La Trice Dixon, Tina Rizzo, Arlene Bowman, Kagendo
Murungi, Iris Morales and young teenage filmmakers who are part of the
video revolution have come to present their work throughout the years.
This year's Festival committee continues this vital project.
The theme of this year's festival is Sovereign Images to mark and contest
two anniversaries of U.S. imperial expansion: the 1848 annexation of half
of Mexico's territories in what is now the U.S. Southwest and the 1898
annexations of Cuba, Eastern Samoa, Guam, Hawai'i, the Philippines, and
Puerto Rico. Given our political context in California, we call attention
to the violent histories which inform U.S. relations with colonized
peoples both within and beyond U.S. borders. This year's festival will
feature films and videos that foreground the role of independent film and
video by women of color in dismantling colonial imaginaries and recovering
histories of resistance. The program provides a forum for discussion on
how we are able to resist and survive colonial domination through the
production of counter memories and transformative imaging practices, such
as the work of Hulleah J. Tsinhnanjinnie's "Photographic Memoirs of an
Aboriginal Savant." We look to films like Ana Maria Garcia's La operacion,
M. Trinh Nguyen's Xich-lo, and Lourdes Portillo's Despues del terremoto
because they engage directly with the legacies of U.S. funded military
invasions and geopolitical interventions. Alongside these works, we
present Julie Dash's Illusions and Ramona Diaz's Spirits Rising to
highlight the roles of mass media and popular culture in the construction
of women of color identities.
This year we are pleased to be featuring veteran filmmakers Julie Dash and
Renee Tajima-Pena as well as visual artist Hulleah J. Tsinhnahjinnie, who
will help us to frame a retrospective of the festival's history and a
longer tradition of film and videomaking by Women of Color. We also honor
and support emergent film and videomakers through The Women of Color Film
and Videomakers Workshop on Saturday morning which we hope will put
multiple generations of critical creativity together in dialogue. As part
of the UCSC Women of Color in Conflict and Collaboration Research Cluster
and the faculty sponsorship of Angela Davis, our vision is to provide a
space for watching works by film and video artists and to locate these
works through broad issues of production, distribution, exhibition and the
racialized/gendered contexts we live in through conversations with
filmmakers, scholars, and the audience.
The 1998 Festival Programming Committee
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Dr. Stefanie S. Rixecker
Division of Environmental Management & Design
Lincoln University, Canterbury
PO Box 56
Aotearoa New Zealand
E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Fax: 64-03-325-3841
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