Color Bonita
Director: Christopher A. Ramirez
An Ongoing Short Audio Dialogue
Color Bonita is an ongoing art dialogue that was created by the digital artist Christopher Angel Ramirez. The art dialogue consists of interviews of Latino gay men living in California who provide accounts of finding their own identities and sexualities in the midst of also struggling with family, cultural expectations (i.e. Machismo), and religion (specifically living in a culture that has a strong relationship with the Catholic church). According to his artistic statement regarding the film, Ramirez created the ongoing dialogue in order to provide an organic history, “participatory narratives” (a term coined by Ramirez) by and for Latino gay men, and perhaps most importantly, a safe space that provides room for transformation and growth once these men are able to reflect and listen to their own and each other’s histories.
Director: Christopher A. Ramirez
An Ongoing Short Audio Dialogue
Color Bonita is an ongoing art dialogue that was created by the digital artist Christopher Angel Ramirez. The art dialogue consists of interviews of Latino gay men living in California who provide accounts of finding their own identities and sexualities in the midst of also struggling with family, cultural expectations (i.e. Machismo), and religion (specifically living in a culture that has a strong relationship with the Catholic church). According to his artistic statement regarding the film, Ramirez created the ongoing dialogue in order to provide an organic history, “participatory narratives” (a term coined by Ramirez) by and for Latino gay men, and perhaps most importantly, a safe space that provides room for transformation and growth once these men are able to reflect and listen to their own and each other’s histories.
Film and Performance Events:
Color Bonita: A Dialogical Act To Witness and Be Witnessed. Performing the World 4, the Performance of Community and the Community of Performance. Presented by Performing the World, an international community of people who recognize performance as a powerful developmental activity for social-cultural transformation. Tarrytown New York, October 2007.
Color Bonita, a new media documentary performance piece that illuminates the complexities of the queer Latino experience and how others become witnesses to this history. Presented by OUTFEST, the oldest continuous film festival in Los Angeles. Los Angeles California, July 2007.
Color Bonita: a new media documentary performance piece about the historical struggles of gay Latino men, presented by MACLA (Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana) and NACCS (National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies) Joto-Caucus. San Jose California, April 2007.
Color Bonita, blends new media documentary with a forum for conversation that focuses on the struggles of queer Latino men. A participatory narrative performance presented by FUSION, the only multi-cultural, gender-inclusive People of Color film festival. Los Angeles California, December 2006.
Links:
http://colorbonita.com/
http://www.eastsideinstitute.org/program.html
http://www.outfest.org/archives/ad.news15.html
Support Groups:
http://www.haworthpress.com/store/E-Text/View_EText.asp?a=3&fn=J041v10n02_03&i=2&s=J041&v=10
http://www.sfaguilas.org/
Images:
Christopher A. Ramirez, Director
1 comment:
great
did you like it?
include this in your statement a bit.
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