caps-news: Cinema Pacific starts today!

Wed Apr 17 09:55:14 PDT 2013

Festival Opening Events at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art
Today, Cinema Pacific will begin with two events at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art and our first Guillermo Arriaga event in Eugene!

Amarillo
Screening and panel discussion with Ruth Wikler-Luker, Lynn Stephen, and director Jorge Vargas (via Skype)
4:00 p.m.  Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art Lecture Room  FREE

A man departs for the US-Mexican border and vanishes before reaching his destination: Amarillo, Texas. Through stunning projected images, bilingual monologues and a sea of displaced objects and natural elements, director Jorge Vargas and his collaborators in Teatro Línea de Sombra reconstruct this journey in a multimedia performance that travels imagined landscapes of geography and cultural identity. The film ofAmarillo's theatrical performance, prepared by Seattle's On the Boards contemporary arts company, retains the immersive and sensual atmosphere of the live performance.

Ruth Wikler-Luker of Boom Arts will moderate the post-film discussion with Lynn Stephen (UO Department of Anthropology) and Jorge Vargas, director of Amarillo, who will join via Skype. Co-presented with Boom Arts and OntheBoards.tv.

The Video Art of Chip Lord
With visiting artist Chip Lord
7:00 p.m.  Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art Lecture Room  FREE

As a member of Ant Farm (1968-1978), Chip Lord produced the video art classicsMedia Burn and The Eternal Frame as well as the Cadillac Ranch sculpture in Amarillo, Texas. Since 1980, he has worked independently and in collaboration, producing video installations and single-channel videotapes. Lord presents and discusses his work, which straddles documentary and experimental genres, often mixing the two.

Schnitzer Museum visitors are invited to see the artifacts of Ant Farm that are on display in the West of Center exhibition. Lord will speak about Ant Farm briefly Wednesday, April 17 and more extensively on Thursday, April 18 in Lawrence Hall at 6:00 p.m.

The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
With screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga
April 17, 7:00 p.m., Bijou Art Cinemas
Tickets: $6 sr/stu; $8 general

The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada is a parable, a Western, and a road movie, grounded in the contemporary environment of the Texas-Mexico border. Guillermo Arriaga has created his finest screenplay, one that is as complex as the characters whose lives are intertwined at the border. Director Tommy Lee Jones's performance is extraordinary, earning him a Best Actor Award at the Cannes Film Festival (2005), where Arriaga also won the Best Screenplay award.

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