Curator's Corner
by Mary Magsamen

Welcome to my corner of the Aurora website!  I love looking for new and interesting film and videos to show at Aurora and I love our members too. This portion of the Aurora website will highlight Aurora Member videos.  Every few months I will select a video from our library or submissions and give it an online show.  If you are not an Aurora member already, become one now!

This season, our featured members are Otis Ike and Ivete Lucas. Otis’ film, Please Visit Ivanhoe, won first place in last year’s Extremely Shorts Festival.  Ivete’s film, Mexican Fried Chicken, won first place in last year’s Señorita Cinema Festival.  Their collaborative exhibition, "One Big Misunderstanding,” will be part of FotoFest 2012 at GGallery, 301 E 11th Street, Houston, March 3 - March 26, 2011.

SUPER BOWL PARKING LOT from Pig Cat on Vimeo.

A biblical, sexualized, multicultural gumbo of strippers, cheese heads, drunkards, rappers and Christian extremists fighting for space in the parking lot of Super Bowl XVL in Dallas TX.

 

Mexican Fried Chicken from Pig Cat on Vimeo.

A 14-year-old Mexican immigrant living in Texas, Moises Macedo struggles to find his cultural identity and a few seconds of free time.

You can also see their work on exhibit at FotoFest 2012:
GGALLERY
301 E 11TH ST, 77008 / 713 869 4770
"One Big Misunderstanding"  Otis Ike and Ivete Lucas
Exhibition Dates: March 3, 2011 thru March 26, 2011
Opening Reception March 3, 2012   6:00 until 9:00
Gallery Hours Wednesday Thru Sunday from 12:00 until 5:00

Learn more about their next project, "Architecture In Crisis" and ways to support their filmmaking projects here.


ABOUT THE ARTISTS

OTIS IKE (a.k.a. Patrick Bresnan) is a self-taught photographer, video artist, affordable housing activist and builder. From 2003-2007, Ike worked as a fabricator for notable Mission School artists Clare Rojas and Barry McGee (a.k.a. Twist), aiding in the creation of new work for exhibitions in the United States and abroad. His architectural work includes disaster relief housing on the Gulf Coast, cottages for the homeless in Austin, TX and structures for his photo and video installations. In 2010, Ike was awarded the top grant from the 2010 Texas Filmmakers Production Fund to finalize post-production of a feature length documentary about Vietnam War re-enactors, Vietnam Appreciation Day.

Ivete Lucas is a filmmaker and video artist of Brazilian and Mexican heritage. Her first short film Asthma was nationally released in Mexican movie theaters and shortlisted for the Mexican Academy Awards. Since then she has made several short fiction and documentary films, which have screened at festivals in the United States, Switzerland, Peru and Mexico. Her video art installations, in which she collaborates with filmmaker/artist Otis Ike, have been displayed in art galleries in Austin, Dallas, San Antonio, Houston and Philadelphia.  Her new project The Curse and the Jubilee was awarded a Texas Filmmakers Production Fund award in 2011. She is currently a fellow of the Mexican Fund for Culture and the Arts.

Check out some of the past artists who have been featured in the Archive for Curator's Corner.