WU TSANG
ID/NEW GENRES
WILDNESS
SCREENING+Q&A WITH DIRECTOR
7PM WEDNESDAY 20 FEBRUARY
.:.:POPCORN WILL BE SERVED.::.
Super special screening with UCLA MFA ID alumn Wu Tsang! This widely acclaimed documentary has only screened a couple times in LA and is not in distribution! HERE + NOW, PEOPLE! And it will be cool to watch it at Warner because Wu worked on this project while in our program.
Rooted in the tropical underground of Los Angeles nightlife, WILDNESS is a documentary portrait of the Silver Platter,
a historic bar in the MacArthur Park area that has been home for
Latin/LBGT immigrant communities since 1963. With a magical-realist
flourish, the bar itself becomes a character, narrating what happens
when a group of young artists create a weekly performance art/dance
party (organized by director Wu Tsang and DJs NGUZUNGUZU & Total Freedom) called Wildness,
which explodes into creativity and conflict. What does “safe space”
mean, and who needs it? And how does it differ among us? At the Silver
Platter, the search for answers to these questions creates coalitions
across generations. Check the website below to watch the trailer and the blog for a great account of questions and struggles and triumphs that were wrestled with during the making and release of the video.
WU TSANG is a Los Angeles based artist and filmmaker. His artworks and performances have been presented at the 2012 Whitney Biennial and New Museum Triennial in New York, the ICA Philadelphia, MOCA Los Angeles, the Gwangju Biennial (South Korea) and upcoming at the Liverpool Biennial (UK). Tsang was named one of Filmmaker Magazine's “25 New Faces of Independent Film" in 2012. His first feature WILDNESS won the Grand Jury Award for Outstanding Documentary at Outfest 2012 [World Premiere: MoMA Documentary Fortnight (New York, NY), SXSW (Austin, TX), Hot Docs (Toronto, Canada), SANFIC8 (Santiago, Chile)]. He has received grants from Good Works, Frameline, Wexner Center for the Arts, IFP Labs, Art Matters, Tiffany Foundation, Frieze Foundation, and the Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.
http://www.wildnessmovie.com/
http://www.wildnessmovie.com/class-blog/
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