Reception to follow.

ADMISSION:
Admission is free. Reservations required. RSVP beginning Tuesday, March 7, at 9 a.m. 

USC Students, Staff, and Faculty: RSVP
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DESCRIPTION:
The post-colonial histories of Latin American countries have been characterized by periods of violence, censorship, discrimination, and loss of memory of the recent past. How do artists live and create in societies that are inherently defined by human catastrophes? A screening of short animated films from Latin America will reveal how animation is being used as a tool for sociopolitical engagement.

Several of the filmmakers, including Patricio Plaza of the award-winning Argentinean duo Grasso & Plaza, will provide context to the screening in an illuminating panel discussion. Grasso & Plaza films meet at the delicate border between documentary and fiction, confronting us with the violence and human tragedies that took place in Argentina during the military dictatorship of the late 1970s and early ’80s. The event will also feature Colombian filmmakers Carlos Gomez Salamanca, Juan Camilo González, and Simón Wilches-Castro. Salamanca’s work focuses on painting and audiovisual languages, reconstructing frame-by-frame images and visual files to create animations which critically explore different social and cultural aspects of his country. González and Wilches-Castro are both alumni of the USC Animation MFA program whose films comment on Colombia’s turmoil.

Additional Links:
Patricio Plaza IMDB
Juan Camilo González Vimeo 

Related Event:
Data-Driven Animation Workshop
Saturday, April 1, 2017, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
USC School of Cinematic Arts, SCB 102
For more info, click here.

Presented by USC Visions and Voices: The Arts and Humanities Initiative. Organized by Sheila M. Sofian and Lisa Mann (Animation & Digital Arts).

Image: Santiago Bou Grasso and Patricio Plaza, El Empleo, 2008