Documentation of a backstage interview with performance artists Guillermo Gómez-Peña and Roberto Sifuentes by filmmaker Ed Morales, along with footage of pre-performance preparations and excerpts of the actual performance at the Magic Theater in San Francisco, CA. Described as a "high-tech Aztec Spanglish lounge operetta," this performance works through and with Chicano stereotypes -- featuring the Cyber Vato, the Mexterminator, the Transvestite Mariachi and other Pocha Nostra "cultural specimens" -- in order to address and examine border-crossing issues of race, gender, language, religion, politics, commodification and multiculturalism.
Borderscape 2000: Kitsch, Violence, and Shamanism at the End of the Century (1999)
HIDVL
Additional Info
- Video: HIDVL Video
- Title: Borderscape 2000: Kitsch, Violence, and Shamanism at the End of the Century
- Alternate Title: Borderscape 2000
- Holdings: video (HIDVL)
- Duration: 01:28:22
- Language: English, Spanish, Spanglish
- Date: Mar 1999
- Location: Performed at Magic Theater, San Francisco, California.
- Type-Format: performance, multimedia, installation, interview
- Cast: Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Roberto Sifuentes, Sara Shelton-Mann, Kathy Kennedy, Juan Ybarra.
- Credits: Guillermo Gómez-Peña, producer, director ; La Pocha Nostra, producer ; Magic Theater, producer ; Ed Morales, videographer.
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Pocha Nostra: Works