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PASSWORD: FilmWeek20

Julio César Morales will discuss his video work and his curatorial project of social justice video commissions. By deploying a range of media and visual strategies, Julio César Morales investigates issues of migration, underground economies, and labor on the personal and global scales. Morales’ practice explores diverse mediums specific to each project or body of work. He has painted watercolor illustrations that diagram human trafficking methods, employed the DJ turntable, produced video and time-based pieces, reenacted a famous meal–all to elucidate social interactions and political perspectives. Julio is Curator at the Arizona State University Art Museum and represented by Gallery Wendi Norris. Moderated by CCA Faculty and Film Program Chair Ranu Mukherjee.

***OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

THIS EVENT IS PART OF THE FIRST-EVER CCA FILM WEEK, a time for our community to come together, to explore, reflect on and celebrate the power and potential of the moving image, the diversity of voices working in this field and our questions related to racial and social justice.

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By deploying a range of media and visual strategies, Julio César Morales investigates issues of migration, underground economies, and labor on the personal and global scales. Morales’ practice explores diverse mediums specific to each project or body of work. He has painted watercolor illustrations that diagram human trafficking methods, employed the DJ turntable, produced video and time-based pieces, reenacted a famous meal–all to elucidate social interactions and political perspectives.

Ranu Mukherjee (CCA Faculty, Film Program Chair) makes hybrid forms of video, painting and installation guided by the forces of ecology and non-human agency, diaspora and migration, motherhood and transnational feminisms. She draws inspiration from the histories of collage, black feminist science fiction and Indian mythological prints (19th-20thc). Employing layers of saturated color, printed pattern on sari cloth and animated overlays of image, tempo and choreography, she amplifies physical presence and sensuality. Her recent work considers how experiences of rupture and longing can be catalysts for building new imaginative capacities.

Julio César Morales, We Are The Dead: Part Two, 2018, two-channel HD video animation (still)