Outtakes of the actual live satellite transmission of Gómez-Peña's pirate TV broadcast El Naftazteca: Cyber-Aztec TV for 2000 AD. This live satellite transmission, interrupting the nightly news in an act of guerrilla television, presented the artist as a post-NAFTA Cyber-Aztec pirate who commandeered a commercial TV signal from his underground "Vato bunker," where virtual reality meets border art in a collage of footage ranging from home movies, excerpts of earlier Gómez-Peña performances, Mexican "B" movies, etc. Radical politics, autobiographical material, "reverse anthropology" and parodic traces of traditional media broadcasts comprise the content of this legendary video art piece; its finished product was later distributed by Video Data Bank.
Naftaztec TV (1994)
HIDVL
Additional Info
- Video: HIDVL Video
- Title: Naftaztec TV
- Alternate Title: Outtakes of Naftaztec TV
- Holdings: video (HIDVL)
- Duration: 00:39:19
- Language: English, Spanish, Spanglish
- Date: 1994
- Location: Performed in Troy, New York.
- Type-Format: film
- Cast: Guillermo Gómez-Peña.
- Credits: Guillermo Gómez-Peña, creator, director, producer ; iEAR Studios, producer ; Adrienne Jenik, producer ; La Pocha Nostra, producer.
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Pocha Nostra: Works