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Screening of Guillermo Gomez-Pena's Border Brujo
Date and Time
Tuesday Mar 2, 2010
12:00 AM - 12:00 AM EST7:00 P.M.,
Location
Ross Commons Seminar Room, Ross Dining
Fees/Admission
Free
Screening of Guillermo Gomez-Pena's B...Description
Sitting at an altar decorated with a kitsch collection of cultural fetish items, and wearing a border patrolman's jacket decorated with buttons, bananas, beads, and shells, Gomez Pena delivers a sly and bitter indictment of U.S. colonial attitudes toward Mexican culture and history. Whirling through various Mexican American stereotypes, pulling on costumes as easily as accents, Gomez-Pena emphasizes the collision of Mexican and American cultures, their mixture and misunderstanding of each other, each appearing as a dream/nightmare reflection of the Other. In turns powerful and playful, Border Brujo poignantly illustrates the double edge of forced cultural occupation. Directed by Isaac Artenstein. (1990, 52 minutes) Sponsored by the Dance Program.
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