Celebrate the new year and a new season of Queer/Art/Film with our guest presenter, artist and activist Carlos Motta.
WHAT: Carlos Motta presents TO DIE LIKE A MAN
WHEN: Monday, January 12, 8PM
WHERE: IFC Center - 323 6th Ave at W. 3rd St.
TO DIE LIKE A MAN
2009. Portugal. 134 min. Directed by João Pedro Rodrigues. 35mm.
Tonia rules the drag club scene of Lisbon. But when she decides to transition from male to female, what fates lay in store for her younger lover, her faith, her son and her...
Celebrate the new year and a new season of Queer/Art/Film with our guest presenter, artist and activist Carlos Motta.
WHAT: Carlos Motta presents TO DIE LIKE A MAN
WHEN: Monday, January 12, 8PM
WHERE: IFC Center - 323 6th Ave at W. 3rd St.
TO DIE LIKE A MAN
2009. Portugal. 134 min. Directed by João Pedro Rodrigues. 35mm.
Tonia rules the drag club scene of Lisbon. But when she decides to transition from male to female, what fates lay in store for her younger lover, her faith, her son and herself? TO DIES LIKE A MAN is a striking epic from acclaimed Portuguese filmmaker João Pedro Rodrigues (O Fantasma). Voted Best Undistributed Film of 2009 by the Village Voice, Rodrigues's film is a lyrical and fantastical melodrama that Columbian artist Carlos Motta applauds as a, “beautiful meditation on gender identity, drag, gay culture, aging and death.” Like much of Motta’s work, the film “addresses some the many challenges and vulnerabilities of living a queer life: How does one construct oneself in the world as a queer person? How does one create alternative relationships, families, ties?”
As always, our screening will be followed by drinks and discussion at Julius Bar (159 West 10th St. at Waverly), the oldest gay bar in New York City!
CARLOS MOTTA
Carlos Motta is a multi-disciplinary artist whose work draws upon political history in an attempt to create counter narratives that recognize suppressed histories, communities, and identities. A survey exhibition of Carlos Motta’s work will be presented at Röda Sten Konsthall, Gothenburg in January 2015. Motta will also have solo exhibitions at mor.charpentier galerie, Paris and PinchukArtCentre, Kiev in 2015 as well as at the Hordaland Kunstsenter, Bergen and Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires (MALBA) in 2016. His work was recently included in Under the Sun: Art from Latin America Today at the Guggenheim Museum, New York and in the X Gwangju Biennale. His “Nefandus Trilogy,” three new short films on pre-Hispanic and colonial sexuality, had its World Prémiere at the International Film Festival Rotterdam. Motta won the Main Prize—Future Generation Art Prize of the PinchukArtCentre in Kiev (2014). Motta is a graduate of the Whitney Independent Study Program (2006), was named a Guggenheim Foundation Fellow (2008), and received grants from Art Matters (2008), NYSCA (2010), Creative Capital Foundation and the Kindle Project (2012). He is part of the faculty at Parsons The New School of Design and The School of Visual Arts.
www.carlosmotta.com