2:00 PM
Counter Boundaries:
Films by Naomi Uman and Nick Deocampo
this screening brings together works by the two aforementioned artists and filmmakers, both working in distinct methods across time, discipline, and form.
Naomi Uman's Hand Eye Coordination (2002, 10 min.) expands beyond the technical limits of the frame through direct drawn animation, prescribing image as a tactile result of its own making. The Sex Warriors and the Samurai (1995, 26 min.) by Nick Deocampo, a pioneer of early queer Filipino cinema and longtime Filipino film scholar and historian, utilizes a hybrid documentary approach to explore migration and belonging for Filipino trans sex workers working in 1990s post-war Japan to support family in the homeland.
Definite in their techniques and equally evocative of the personal, the two works highlight use of the moving image to negotiate depictions of the multivalent, yet relational self.
LOCATIONthis screening brings together works by the two aforementioned artists and filmmakers, both working in distinct methods across time, discipline, and form.
Naomi Uman's Hand Eye Coordination (2002, 10 min.) expands beyond the technical limits of the frame through direct drawn animation, prescribing image as a tactile result of its own making. The Sex Warriors and the Samurai (1995, 26 min.) by Nick Deocampo, a pioneer of early queer Filipino cinema and longtime Filipino film scholar and historian, utilizes a hybrid documentary approach to explore migration and belonging for Filipino trans sex workers working in 1990s post-war Japan to support family in the homeland.
Definite in their techniques and equally evocative of the personal, the two works highlight use of the moving image to negotiate depictions of the multivalent, yet relational self.
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Patricia Ledesma Villon is a curator, moving image archivist, and the Assistant Curator of Moving Image at the Walker Art Center. Her interdisciplinary work focuses on contemporary and archival artist-made films and exhibition, with experience in film and media archives and photochemical filmmaking and preservation. Since 2019, she has been a member and co-organizer of Light Field, a collectively-run exhibition of recent and historical moving image art on film in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her writing on related topics has appeared in The Moving Image, Cinergie - Il Cinema e le altre Arti, Synoptique: Journal of Moving Image Studies, among elsewhere.