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Movies in the Lot with Sin Cinta Previa

HYDE PARK ART CENTER

5020 S Cornell Ave, Chicago, IL 60615

June 30, 2022 @ 8:00 PM - 10:00 PM

Trans-Parent Material: Oli Rodriguez presented by Sin Cinta Previa is a screening and discussion between video-artists Oli Rodriguez and scholar Francisco Galarte.

Join us for a preview screening of Papi’s Pregnant (~2022, 11 min)  and a full screening of LYNDALE (2018, 24 min. Papi’s Pregnant  chronicles the filmmakers conception and navigation of getting pregnant as a transmasculine identified person. This feature length film  visualizes queerness and a burgeoning medical field of trans pregnancy.  Winner of the IC DOCS Jury Award for Best Documentary Short (2019),  LYNDALE explores toxic masculinity, cyclical familial trauma and  queerness.

July 7, 2022 @ 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

ZOOM DISCUSSION

Join Oli Rodriguez and Francisco Galarte on Zoom. Register here.

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Oli Rodriguez is an interdisciplinary artist working in video,  photography, performance, installation, poetry and writing. He is an assistant Professor in the Department of Art at California State  University. He is a Diverse Voices in Docs (DVID) fellows for the  Kartemquin Films and the Community Film Workshop (2020). He has  screened, performed, lectured and exhibited works internationally and  nationally. His intersectional research and interdisciplinary projects  conceptually focus on queerness, gender, appropriation, performative  interactions, visualizing familial and other representations of the AIDS  pandemic, while referencing historical movements in gender, racial and  feminist histories.

Francisco J. Galarte is an Assistant Professor of American Studies  and Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University of New Mexico. His first book, Brown Trans Figurations: Rethinking Race, Gender and  Sexuality in Chicanx/Latinx Studies explores transgender analytics and  Chicana/o Studies failures in understanding racialization, gendered  violence, queer sexualities, masculinities and femininities.

Jose Luis Benavides (moderator) is a Latinx and queer video-artist  who has screened their work internationally, and most recently at Lit  & Luz Festival (2022). As the founder of Sin Cinta Previa, their work was awarded an Art Leaders of Color Network – POWER Project grant  (2018), a Propeller Fund grant (2019), and a Hyde Park Arts Center –  Artist Run Chicago 2.0 grant (2021).

Sin Cinta Previa: Latin(a)x & Queer Archive Video Series is a  screening and discussion series which archives the polyvocal, multi-ethnic and plural gendered experiences, moving images and  video-art works of Latinx artists from across the Americas and  Caribbean. With a special interest in video artists, experimental  filmmakers and documentary makers, Sin Cinta Previa seeks to redress the invisibility and erasure of the historic contributions to political and  artistic resistance in video made by queer, trans, non-binary, women,  indigenous, Afro-descendant, and diasporic peoples across the region.

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This event is in conjunction with Hyde Park Art Center’s Artist Run Chicago Fund.