[Students] The Hispanic Film Showcase Presents: "Little Ashes", Oct. 17th at 5:30pm

[Kim Jefferies]

Hispanic Film Showcase Fall 2013 

 

Hispanic Painters Portrayed in Film 

 

 

The Spanish Program and Hispanic Outreach Office present the Hispanic Film Showcase for Fall 2013.

 

The topic this semester will be Hispanic Painters. The film selection will present biopics based on artists from the Hispanic world, who have been influential and recognized as world masters within the painting movement they represent.

 

Painting is a universal artistic expression. Hispanic culture has made a remarkable contribution to this art through time. Film, as a popular cultural expression of our time, has been also a vehicle to portray the lives of painters, their influences, and society of their time. 

 

This fall, the combination of both of these arts presents the opportunity to learn about a selection of painters coming from the Hispanic world. The film selection will explore artists in their historic and artistic time.

 

The four movies of the series will be introduced by distinguished professors from the departments of Literature and Languages, Curriculum and Instruction, and Psychology, Counseling & Special Education.

 

Save the following dates and be ready to enjoy and learn about Hispanic Arts in films right here on the campus of Texas A&M University-Commerce!

 

Thursday, October 17-- Little Ashes (2008)

Introduced by Dr. Inma Lyons; Associate Professor, Department of Literature and Languages.

Synopsis: Madrid 1920´s. Three of the most important artists from Spain in XXth century -Salvador Dalí (painting), García Lorca (literature), and Luis Buñuel (film)- share their early careers at the Residencia de Estudiantes. 

By director Paul Morrison.

In English with Spanish subtitles.  Rated R.

 

Friday, November 15 -- Frida (2002)

Introduced by Dr. Chris Green, Associate Professor Department of Curriculum and Instruction.

Synopsis: A biography of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo. Struggling with her paralizing injury and the marriage to the greatest Mexican painter, Diego Rivera, Frida finds a way to become a renowned world painter on her own in the midst

of changing times in the history of XXth century.

By director Julie Taymor (Titus, The Tempest).

In English with Spanish subtitles. Rated R.

 

Friday, December 6 -- Goya in Bourdeaux (1999)

Introduced by Dr. María Lamarque, Associate Professor at Department of                                

Literature and Languages

Synopsis: XVIIIth century Spanish court painter and world renowned painting

master Francisco de Goya (1746-1828), deaf and ill, lives the last years of his

life in voluntary exile in Bordeaux, France protesting the oppressive rule of Ferdinand VII.

By director Carlos Saura (La caza, Flamenco, Tango...).

In Spanish with English subtitles. Rated R.

 

 

Location: the Theater (Room 203) in the Hall of Languages at 5:30 pm

 

Questions? Please contact Dr. María Lamarque at maria.lamarque at tamuc.edu <mailto:maria.lamarque at tamuc.edu> 

or Dr. Inma Lyons at <mailto:maria.lamarque at tamuc.edu> inma.lyons at tamuc.edu <mailto:inma.lyons at tamuc.edu> 

 

This event is free and open to the public

 

 

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