2018 Mexican Cinema and Borders
October 10-12, 2018
The riverrun Global Film Series aspires to create a dialogue between local community and institutions of higher education in Buffalo through a selection of films that provide a better understanding of our present existence in the globalized networked world.
| Wednesday, October 10 | |||
| Section | Run Time | Film | Speaker |
| Poetic Mode: Border Experimentations
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4-5:50 pm | El Mar La Mar, Joshua Bonnetta & J.P. Sniadecki, 2017 (1 hr 35 mins) | Ekrem Serdar, Squeaky Wheel Film & Media Art Center |
| Restored Classics Night I | 6:00-7:50pm | Time to Die (Tiempo De Morir), Arturo Ripstein, 1966 (1hr 30 mins). Screenplay by Gabriel García Márquez and Carlos Fuentes. Restoration Company: Alameda Films. | Bruce Jackson, Buffalo Film Seminars/SUNY Distinguished Professor & James Agee Professor of American Culture, English, UB |
| LGBTQ Films/Women Filmmakers | 8:15-10:00pm | Smuack, Alejandra Sánchez, 2015 (24 mins)
Casa Roshell, Camila José Donoso, 2017 (1hr 11 mins) |
Ana Grujic, Buffalo-Niagara LGBTQ History Project |
| Thursday, October 11 | |||
| Section | Run Time | Film | Speaker |
| Observational Mode: Mexico and Minors
(dedicated to the children separated from their parents on the US-Mexico border) |
4:00pm-5:45 pm | The Inheritors (Los Herederos), Eugenio Polgosvky, 2008 (1 hr 30 mins). In memory of of Eugenio Polgovsky. | Meg Knowles, Television and Film Arts, SUNY Buffalo State |
| Keynote Lecture | 6:30pm – 7:30 pm | “Mexico’s Contemporary Bi-national Cinema: from Migrations to Co-productions” | Ignacio Sánchez Prado, Washington University in St. Louis |
| Restored Classics Night II | 7:45pm -9:30 pm | Two Monks (Dos Monjes), Juan Bustillo Oro, 1934 (1 hr 25 mins). Restored by the Film Foundation’s World Cinema Project at L’Imagine Ritrovata laboratory in collaboration with Filmoteca e la UNAM and Cinémathque française. | Margarita Vargas, Romance Languages and Literatures, UB |
| Friday, October 12
October M&T Bank Second Friday at the Burchfield Penney Art Center |
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| Section | Run Time | Film | Speaker |
| Buñuel in Mexico
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2:00-3:50 pm | A Mexican Buñuel, Emilio Maillé, 1995 (55 mins). Courtesy of Emilio Maillé.
Simon of the Desert (Simón del desierto), Luis Buñuel, 1965 (45 mins) |
Elizabeth Scarlett, Romance Languages and Literatures, UB |
| Risky Territories | 4-5:30 pm | Devil’s Freedom (La Libertad Del Diablo), Ernesto Gonzales, 2017 (1 hr 15 mins) | Ignacio Sánchez Prado, Washington University in St. Louis |
| Happy Hour | 5:30pm – 7:00pm | Music by La Marimba | |
| Coco Hour for Children:
Music, Book Reading, and Art Workshop |
5:30-7:30pm | Coco Book, Disney/Pixar, 2017
Living in Mexico, Chloe Perkins, 2016 Off We Go to Mexico, Laurie Krebs, 2008 |
Mara Odette Guerrero, Casa De Arte |
| Documenting/Animating the Border and Other Stories: Shorts
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7:00pm – 8:50pm | Ties, Not Walls (Lazos, No Muros), LuisPa Salmón, 2017 (1 min); Creativity Does Not Recognize Borders (La creatividad no reconoce muros), Fernando Campos, 2017 (2 mins); Endogamy (Endogamia, 2017), Arnold Abadie (2 mins); Best of Luck with the Wall, Josh Begley, 2016 (7 mins); Love, Our Prison, Carolina Corral, 2016 (6 mins); The Good Mother (La Madre Buena), Sarah Clift, 2017 (6 mins); Symphony of a Sad Sea (Sinfonía de un mar triste), Carlos Morales, 2017 (11 min); Birth on the Border, Ellie Lobovitz, 2017 (27 mins); Artemio, Sandra Luz López Barroso, 2017 (48 mins). | |
| Borders and Immigration Panel
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9:00pm – 10:00 pm | Facilitator: Richard Reitsma, Canisius College
Participants: Ignacio Sánchez Prado, Abigail Cooke, Department of Geography, University at Buffalo; Irene Rekhviashvili, Journey’s End Refugee Services; Jennifer Connor, Justice for Migrant Families; Alyssa Erazo, ECBA Volunteer Lawyers, New York Immigrant Family Unity Project; Monica Wrobel, Canisius College/“Latinitas” Project; Mara Odette Guerrero, Casa De Arte, Secil Ertorer, Canisius College |
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