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SCREEN: Community Cinema from Karachi to Los Angeles
September 7, 2017 - December 6, 2018
SCREEN: Community Cinema from Karachi to Los Angeles
September 7, 2017 - December 6, 2018

Miko Revereza (Echo Park Film Center): DISINTEGRATION, 93-962017, video, 15minutes, 27seconds

Miko Revereza’s film DISINTEGRATION 93-96 makes reference to home movies of Revereza’s family made in the years 1993-1996, a period of time that was characterized by an immense sense of existential and economic precarity due to their undocumented status. Starting with his own arrival to the U.S. following his father’s, Revereza’s narration of the footage moves between several emotional states–resentment toward his father’s readiness to assimilate American culture and later empathy toward his tribulations in failing to do so, optimism toward a brighter future paired with apathy in making ends meet in the shadow of the American Dream.

SCREEN: Community Cinema from Karachi to Los Angeles brings together two community cinema initiatives whose work reflects the cultural infrastructure of the cities they operate in. Mera Karachi Mobile Cinema, a project of the Tentative Collective, works with residents of Karachi, Pakistan, to produce films made entirely of mobile phone footage, enabling its collaborators to share their daily lives using a cheap and improvisational technology. The Echo Park Film Center is a microcinema in Los Angeles’s Echo Park neighborhood that teaches and empowers members of the community to view and create films. This screening includes work by both organizations that reflects cinema as a tool for expressing the narratives of immigrant communities whose notion of place, security, and citizenship is in constant flux.

Mera Karachi Mobile Cinema is represented by Yaminay Nasir Chaudhri and the Echo Park Film Center by Gemma Jimenez Gonzalez. Participating artists include The Kolachi Brothers, The Undocumented Minors Project, Simri Hernandez , Stephanie Escalante Leiva, Gemma Jimenez Gonzalez, Walter Hernandez, ACT-LA, and Walter Hernandez. SCREEN: Community Cinema from Karachi to Los Angeles is organized by Nevin Kallepalli.

Schedule
The Kolachi Brothers
Sep 7, 2017 - Oct 6, 2018
Untitled (Super 8 Commission Film)
Nov 18 - Nov 28, 2018