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Starting in September 2017 through January 2018, the Los Angeles Filmforum's Ismo, Ismo, Ismo: Experimental Cinema in Latin America film series will take place during Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA. Ism, Ism, Ism is the first comprehensive US-based film program and catalog to address the breadth of Latin America's vibrant experimental filmmaking. The film series will feature key historical and contemporary works from Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, Venezuela, Puerto Rico, and the United States. Revisiting classic names and forms from the experimental canon, the exhibition boldly places them in an entirely new scope and breadth. From the groundbreaking work of Brazilian artist Hélio Oiticica and Mexican photographer Manuel Álvarez Bravo to the impressive but virtually unknown work of the curious Ecuadorian filmmaker Eduardo Solá Franco, the exhibition takes the aficionado and open-minded viewer on a journey into a large amount of materials. Selected from the forgotten corners of the Latin American film archives. The Los Angeles Filmforum is the oldest exhibitor of experimental film and video in the city of Los Angeles, previously producing the screening series and book Alternative Screenings: Experimental Film in Los Angeles, 1945-1980.
Ism, Ism, Ism is accompanied by a bilingual publication, Ism, Ism, Ism / Ismo, Ismo, Ismo: Experimental Cinema in Latin America (Jesse Lerner and Luciano Piazza, editors, University of California Press, 2017) placing Latino and Latin American Experimental cinema within a broader dialogue that explores different periods, cultural contexts, image creation models and considerations of these filmmakers within international cinema.