SF: "Maquilapolis" Screening and Conversation with Sergio De La Torre & Vicky Funari

"Maquilapolis" Screening and Conversation with Sergio De La Torre & Vicky Funari November 20

SFAI Fall 2006
Visiting Artists and Scholars Lecture Series
Lecture Hall
San Francisco Art Institute
800 Chestnut Street Campus

November 20, 2006, 7:30pm
free and open to the public

Maquilapolis is a documentary about (and by) workers in Tijuana's assembly factories, the maquiladoras. The project is a collaboration among filmmaker Vicky Funari, filmmaker/artist Sergio De La Torre, the Tijuana women's organization Grupo Factor X, and other human rights and environmental organizations. The film, which has been screened at festivals internationally, combines video diaries, interviews, home visits, and images of hulking factories to visualize the implications of globalization. Vicky Funari is a filmmaker whose work, including Paulina, the non-fiction feature she directed, and Live Nude Girls Unite!, which she co-directed and edited, focuses primarily on the lives of working people. Sergio De La Torre is an artist whose photographic, performance, and installation works have focused on issues regarding diaspora/tourism and identity politics. Maquilapolis is included in the California Biennial at the Orange County Museum of Art, which runs from October 1 through December 31, 2006.
http://www.maquilopolis.com