CONTENT WARNING: These films contain flashing lights which may not be suitable for photosensitive epilepsy in addition to explicit images of violence.
Annalisa D. Quagliata Blanco has built an impressive body of filmic work over the last two decades. Her frenetic and direct cinematic practice melds an interest in formal experimentation with political intervention. Although her feature debut, the audacious and refreshingly unusual ¡AOQUIC IEZ IN MEXICO! will be the focus of a subsequent screening here at Spectacle, her previous short films constitute their own powerful block of cinematic assault: on the traditions of the medium, on Mexican society writ-large, and on the passive spectator.
With Quagliata Blanco in-person, we present her entire body-of-work, from work she developed at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design under the tutelage of experimental film luminaries like Saul Levine and her more recent films, which anticipate the political fury of her feature debut.