Events
Movie screening "Escocia no es un banco" + Q&A with filmmakers: Cristian Franco Martin and Carlos Matsuo
Screening of the new Mexican-independent-punk film, "Escocia no es un banco" (Scotia is not a bank), a fake documentary that focuses on a fake band—which started as a performance piece and a Q&A with the directors, Cristian Martin and Carlos Matsuo
The event will take place on Tuesday February 20th at 7:00PM. The event is free and snacks will be provided.
Synopsis: The New Maevans were a hardcore-punk band that emerged in the 1980s in Lower California. Now, one member wants to bring the band together and revive the youth’s resistance and anti-system stance, but the picture is disappointing.
Directors:
CARLOS MATSUO: (San Diego, California, 1988)
Carlos Matsuo is a documentary film director. He has presented his work at the Morelia International Film Festival and at the Guadalajara International Festival of Cinema. In the latter, he was awarded alongside Cristian Franco with the Prize Made in Jalisco for Escocia no es un banco.
CRISTIAN FRANCO (Tecate Baja California, Mexico, 1980).
Cristian Franco is a visual artist. His pieces are part of the Jumex Collection. He has presented his work in the galleries Park Gallery and MAZ, and has been a member of the National System of Art Creators.
He has worked from the observation of the languages and the aesthetics of the underground and subculture, but also from its concatenation with popular culture and the discursive structure of History, politics, advertising and marketing. Franco uses an acidic and insolent humor to destabilize and dismember the components of the dominant narratives, and to highlight the weaknesses in the construction of the speech, of the forms of the cultural already from the high culture or even of its counterparts that have been suppressed and subhistorized. The images in his work, his performative work and the research methodologies he uses cross and unravel the lines of separation between truth and fiction; this strategy allows him to interrogate the audience and unleash it as a participant in the stories he addresses and as a witness to uncertainty. The New Maevans, the Doña Pancha Festival or the large series of illustrations that address stories such as that of the famous UFO phenomenon analyst Billy Meier, promote and expand the questions that Franco is asking about the way in which the cultural, the ideology, or the representation is constructed. The evolution of his work - ranging from drawing, performance, sculpture, textiles, printing and text - intertwined disciplines, dimmed their limits, and resulted in a disconcerting imagination that provoked our notion of coherence. Cristian Franco seeks to trigger from the unexpected a confrontation with what is uncomfortable but also with the discovery and an approach to the world from other fronts.