I'm really sad to hear this. Beatriz taught the first video production course I
took at University of North Texas almost 10 years ago, and introduced me to
super 8 filmmaking. She encouraged experimentation in an environment that
wasn't completely friendly to it and it was a formative experience for me.
Thank you for sharing, Bernie.
Mike Morris
Dallas, Tx
Beatriz Flores Gutiérrez passed away on Saturday, April 21, 2012 of breast
cancer.
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>She attended San Fransisco State University, then completed an MFA in the
>Department of Media Study at the State University of New York at Buffalo.
>Between the Fall of 2003 and the Spring of 2009 she taught at the University
>of North Texas' Department of Radio, Television, and Film, Northern Illinois
>University's Time Arts program within their School of Art, and Evergreen State
>College's Media Arts program. Beatriz was an active member of the
>Evolutionary Girls Club, a collective founded in part by Erica Eaton during
>their studies in Buffalo. An active chamption of undocumented workers within
>the U.S., Beatriz developed a series of videos about the experiences of
>Mexicans working and living in the States. By nature very sweet and
>approacheable, she was a fierce defender of the everday working
>Mexican-Americans. In Mexico Beatriz was a theater student before moving
>north and always loved dance and physical expression. In the North she was
>profoundly disturbed by the activities of the U.S. border patrol and
>Immigration authorities. Beatriz never tired of returning to the border,
>where she had long-standing relationships with Americans working on behalf of
>migrants. Organizations on the U.S./Mexican border like No More Deaths and
>Humane Borders were frequent destinations for Beatriz, and some of us received
>our basic education about the border and the U.S. foreign policy itself on
>road trips in her company discussing documentary film and the history of
>activist media. She was a central figure in the organization of the
>conference Bridges Not Walls, which was held at Evergreen State College May 15
>- 18, 2008. Beatriz also loved pioneers, including Beatriz Noronha da Costa,
>with whom she studied during the latter's year teaching in Buffalo. During
>her final years Beatriz had many friends in Olympia with whom she shared an
>interest in movement workshops, yoga, and natural living.
>She is survived by three sisters, a brother, and her parents, now separated,
>all of whom live near Mexico City, where Beatriz grew up. She maintained some
>activity and enjoyment of life until near the end, and passed peacefully,
>without pain, and among friends.
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>Bernie
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