Special Sneak Preview Screening & Artist Talk

Thursday, Nov. 3  4-6 pm

Angela Reginato:

THE POLVO TRILOGY

an exploration of memory shaped by Mexico City
  
UCSD Visual Arts Facility Performance Space/Black Box Theater (Russell Lane)
 

Polvo (Dust) is a 30-minute experimental essay film that chronicles the real-life disappearance of the son of a French woman and her American husband from Mexico City during the politically-charged late 1970s. Composed from rare Super 8 found home movies and educational films, Polvo examines how memory is shaped by everything that surrounds us and how seemingly unrelated images, real or imagined, fuse to become one story in our minds.
 
Director/Producer Angela Reginato will present a work-in-progress screening of Polvo along with two other short films from her trilogy on Mexico City. A trained architect, Reginato will discuss her film practice and present art objects from her installation work, a project in which she collaborated with Huichol Indian yarn artists to re-create movie stills from her collection of amateur films.
 
Polvo is currently in post-production and will be completed later this year. The film project is funded in part by the Creative Capital Foundation.

Filmmaker Biography
 
Angela Reginato, Director/Producer, is an experimental film and video maker based in Oakland, CA.  Born to an Italian father and Tex-Mex mother, Reginato grew up in California, Mexico and Italy during the 1970s and 80s.  Originally trained as an architect at UC Berkeley, Reginato is interested in filmically exploring the use of place in the construction of memory. Her film Contemplando la Ciudad has screened in San Francisco, Mexico City, London, and at the 2006 Rotterdam International Film Festival and the National Museum for Women in the Arts.
 
This screening is co-presented by the UCSD Communication Department and CILAS (Center for Iberian & Latin American Studies) with the support of the UCSD Visual Arts Department and ArtPower!