Thursday, June 28, 2012
The Photographs of Louise Rosskam in NYC
If in NYC, do not miss!
Picturing Puerto Rico under the American Flag: The Photographs of Louise Rosskam, 1937-1948
Guest-curated by Laura Katzman
Currently on view at Hunter College East Harlem Art Gallery
May 11 – July 21, 2012
http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/eastharlem-artgallery/current-exhibitions
Friday, November 25, 2011
Art Exhibition: Louise Rosskam's Work (Washington, DC)
http://www.american.edu/cas/museum/gallery/louise-rosskam.cfm
Friday, October 29, 2010
Charla en SUNY Stony Brook/Talk in SUNY Stony Brook
Department of Hispanic Languages & Literature/Stony Brook University
“Literatura y Artes Gráficas en Puerto Rico”
Arcadio Díaz Quiñones (Princeton University)
17 de noviembre, 12:45pm.
Melville Library N3060
Friday, March 19, 2010
Exhibition: The Art of Persuasion
The Art of Persuasion -- Curated by Richard Schindler, Kenneth Pinnow and Darren Miller
Review:
http://venangago-go.blogspot.com/2010/03/review-art-of-persuasion-at-allegheny.html
Art Exhibition: Lorenzo Homar, Work and Legacy
http://repeatingislands.com/2010/03/13/art-exhibition-lorenzo-homar-work-and-legacy-2/
Friday, November 6, 2009
Restauración del documental "Jesús T. Piñero"
El documental sobre Jesús Toribio Piñero (1897-1952) que filmara Jack Délano en 1946 fue restaurado en México, en la Filmoteca de la UNAM.
Con visuales de la juramentación del primer puertorriqueño nombrado gobernador (1946), y con tomas de la creciente industrialización de la Isla, el filme es testimonio de la década de 1940.
Ficha técnica: 16 mm; fotografía y dirección de Jack Délano; guión de Edwin Rosskam.
http://www.icp.gobierno.pr/agp/coms/filmepinero.htm
Sunday, October 18, 2009
Book Presentation
New book on the DIVEDCO Project
Negociaciones culturales; los intelectuales y el proyecto pedagógico del estado muñocista, by Catherine Marsh- Kennerley
Ediciones Callejón, San Juan, 2009
Presenters: Juan Gelpí and Silvia Álvarez Curbelo
Thurday, October 29
7PM
@Librería La Tertulia
Ave. Ponce de León # 1002
Río Piedras, Puerto Rico
Tel. 787 765-1148
Monday, April 6, 2009
Thursday, April 2, 2009
PROGRAM
Pedagogies of Progress: The films of the Puerto Rican DIVEDCO
Friday April 3rd, King Juan Carlos I Center, NYU
12:00 - 1:30
El puente [The Bridge] (Amílcar Tirado, 1954) 50 min.
This film won an honorable mention at the Edinburgh Film Festival in 1954. It portrays a rural community’s struggle to cope with the devastating events of an overflowing river in Barrio Botijas II, Orocovis, which threatens to derail the children’s schooling.
El yugo [The Yoke] (Oscar Torres, 1959) 44 min.
The fishermen’s community of Las Cabezas, Fajardo, founds a cooperative to fight the middleman’s stranglehold on wholesale prices. With a script by Pedro Juan Soto, it is one of the few DIVEDCO films to feature the coastal region of Puerto Rico.
15 min. break
1:45 - 3:30
El de los cabos blancos [One Lucky Horse] (Willard Van Dyke, 1957) 33 min.
The blacklisted American documentarian Willard Van Dyke filmed this tale about tobacco workers in the heart of the Puerto Rican countryside. Heeding their wives’ advice, individuals join forces in a cooperative so they can sell their crop of tobacco leaves at fair market value.
Modesta o la huelga de las mujeres [Modesta, or, the Women’s Strike] (Benji Doniger, 1955) 36 min. With English subtitles.
Prize winner, Venice Festival 1956. The DIVEDCO’s most important attempt to depict women’s rights in the context of modernization processes in Puerto Rico. Modesta leads a group of women in Barrio Sonadora, Guaynabo, in a strike against their husbands to demand their rights in a domestic context.
Ignacio (Angel F. Rivera, 1956) 34 min.
One of the DIVEDCO’s most representative films, with a screenplay by René Marqués. Recreates the town meetings which were a staple of the DIVEDCO project. True-life residents debate community priorities, in this case the advisability of building parks and roads before dealing with the severe health issues caused by the town’s water supply. Afflicted by personal tragedy, Ignacio, the common man, finds the courage to challenge the reigning leadership.
15 min. break
3:45 - 5:00
Juan sin seso [Juan Has No Brains] (Luis A. Maisonet, 1959) 16 min.
The DIVEDCO tackles the problem of mass culture as the extreme of “progress.” “Juan sin seso” means, literally, “Juan has no brains.” This brief but important film attempts to exercise damage control over the pernicious effects of accelerated modernization, and is emblematic of some of the DIVEDCO’s structuring contradictions. With a screenplay by René Marqués.
El gallo pelón (Amílcar Tirado, 1961) 50 min.
In the Maricao community of Vega Alta, Puerto Rico, the main character, played by the esteemed comedian José Miguel Agrelot, buys a washing machine for his wife. However, the town has no electrical power. The movie’s depiction of the jíbaro as naive and comical created a rift among the DIVEDCO personnel, especially its community organizers. With a screenplay by Pedro Juan Soto.
15 min. break
5:15 - 6:00
Un día cualquiera [A Day in the Life] (Angel F. Rivera, 1953/1993) 48 min.
This movie project did not make it past the editing process in 1953. It was released four decades later. Although specialists do not agree on the reason, it’s likely that the movie’s bitter tone and deviation from the dominant, uplifting DIVEDCO narrative were the main reasons. Notable for its portrayal of “El Fanguito,” a San Juan urban slum and of country-city emigration at the dawn of Operation Bootstrap. With a screenplay by Pedro Juan Soto.
15 min. break
6:15 - 7:45
Panel on the Art and Politics of the DIVEDCO Project
“La cabeza propia”: democracia y autoritarismo en el proyecto de Educación de la Comunidad en Puerto Rico
Silvia Álvarez Curbelo (University of Puerto Rico)
“Al aire libre”: el cine de la División de Educación de la Comunidad
Catherine Marsh (University of Puerto Rico)
The panelists will provide English summaries of their talks.
8:00 - 9:20
Los peloteros [The Ballplayers] (Jack Délano, 1951) 83 min.
The first full-length Puerto Rican feature film created an aesthetic that was later identified with the DIVEDCO itself. Directed by Jack Delano, a Ukrainian-born American photographer active in the Farm Security Administration, who settled permanently in Puerto Rico in 1946, and written by Edwin Rosskam. Features the well known actors Ramón Ortiz del Rivero (Diplo) and Miriam Colón. A feel-good movie about the efforts of a group of poor boys to set up a local baseball team. Against all odds, they raise money for uniforms and equipment.
Refreshments will be served during the event. Summaries in English will be provided. All movies are in Spanish without subtitles unless otherwise stated
Friday April 3rd, King Juan Carlos I Center, NYU
12:00 - 1:30
El puente [The Bridge] (Amílcar Tirado, 1954) 50 min.
This film won an honorable mention at the Edinburgh Film Festival in 1954. It portrays a rural community’s struggle to cope with the devastating events of an overflowing river in Barrio Botijas II, Orocovis, which threatens to derail the children’s schooling.
El yugo [The Yoke] (Oscar Torres, 1959) 44 min.
The fishermen’s community of Las Cabezas, Fajardo, founds a cooperative to fight the middleman’s stranglehold on wholesale prices. With a script by Pedro Juan Soto, it is one of the few DIVEDCO films to feature the coastal region of Puerto Rico.
15 min. break
1:45 - 3:30
El de los cabos blancos [One Lucky Horse] (Willard Van Dyke, 1957) 33 min.
The blacklisted American documentarian Willard Van Dyke filmed this tale about tobacco workers in the heart of the Puerto Rican countryside. Heeding their wives’ advice, individuals join forces in a cooperative so they can sell their crop of tobacco leaves at fair market value.
Modesta o la huelga de las mujeres [Modesta, or, the Women’s Strike] (Benji Doniger, 1955) 36 min. With English subtitles.
Prize winner, Venice Festival 1956. The DIVEDCO’s most important attempt to depict women’s rights in the context of modernization processes in Puerto Rico. Modesta leads a group of women in Barrio Sonadora, Guaynabo, in a strike against their husbands to demand their rights in a domestic context.
Ignacio (Angel F. Rivera, 1956) 34 min.
One of the DIVEDCO’s most representative films, with a screenplay by René Marqués. Recreates the town meetings which were a staple of the DIVEDCO project. True-life residents debate community priorities, in this case the advisability of building parks and roads before dealing with the severe health issues caused by the town’s water supply. Afflicted by personal tragedy, Ignacio, the common man, finds the courage to challenge the reigning leadership.
15 min. break
3:45 - 5:00
Juan sin seso [Juan Has No Brains] (Luis A. Maisonet, 1959) 16 min.
The DIVEDCO tackles the problem of mass culture as the extreme of “progress.” “Juan sin seso” means, literally, “Juan has no brains.” This brief but important film attempts to exercise damage control over the pernicious effects of accelerated modernization, and is emblematic of some of the DIVEDCO’s structuring contradictions. With a screenplay by René Marqués.
El gallo pelón (Amílcar Tirado, 1961) 50 min.
In the Maricao community of Vega Alta, Puerto Rico, the main character, played by the esteemed comedian José Miguel Agrelot, buys a washing machine for his wife. However, the town has no electrical power. The movie’s depiction of the jíbaro as naive and comical created a rift among the DIVEDCO personnel, especially its community organizers. With a screenplay by Pedro Juan Soto.
15 min. break
5:15 - 6:00
Un día cualquiera [A Day in the Life] (Angel F. Rivera, 1953/1993) 48 min.
This movie project did not make it past the editing process in 1953. It was released four decades later. Although specialists do not agree on the reason, it’s likely that the movie’s bitter tone and deviation from the dominant, uplifting DIVEDCO narrative were the main reasons. Notable for its portrayal of “El Fanguito,” a San Juan urban slum and of country-city emigration at the dawn of Operation Bootstrap. With a screenplay by Pedro Juan Soto.
15 min. break
6:15 - 7:45
Panel on the Art and Politics of the DIVEDCO Project
“La cabeza propia”: democracia y autoritarismo en el proyecto de Educación de la Comunidad en Puerto Rico
Silvia Álvarez Curbelo (University of Puerto Rico)
“Al aire libre”: el cine de la División de Educación de la Comunidad
Catherine Marsh (University of Puerto Rico)
The panelists will provide English summaries of their talks.
8:00 - 9:20
Los peloteros [The Ballplayers] (Jack Délano, 1951) 83 min.
The first full-length Puerto Rican feature film created an aesthetic that was later identified with the DIVEDCO itself. Directed by Jack Delano, a Ukrainian-born American photographer active in the Farm Security Administration, who settled permanently in Puerto Rico in 1946, and written by Edwin Rosskam. Features the well known actors Ramón Ortiz del Rivero (Diplo) and Miriam Colón. A feel-good movie about the efforts of a group of poor boys to set up a local baseball team. Against all odds, they raise money for uniforms and equipment.
Refreshments will be served during the event. Summaries in English will be provided. All movies are in Spanish without subtitles unless otherwise stated
English article on DIVEDCO
Catherine Marsh. "Cultural Negotiations: Puerto Rican Intellectuals In A State-Sponsored Community Education Project, 1948-1968" Harvard Educational Review, 2003.
http://www.puertorico-herald.org/issues/2003/vol7n46/CultNegotiations-en.html
http://www.puertorico-herald.org/issues/2003/vol7n46/CultNegotiations-en.html
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