Works on FILM
Experimental film that explores the effects of colonial/industrialist mentality on the natural Californian landscape and psyche.
Shot in black and white Super 8mm film in San Francisco and Sequoia National Park, That Mission Rising! was made specifically for a show in the Mission District of San Francisco. At the time of the dot-com insurgence of new “settlers”, the show was geared toward the issues of gentrification. The mission in the title refers to the Mission District rising in popularity (for relatively cheap real estate) and the rising of the Spanish missions before, in which trees fell as towns went up. The film is about colonization and the Western domination of the natural world. It is about the land, the earth, and the physical drama playing out between man and the environment.
Screened: Remembrance and Response community forum - Channel 53 broadcast SF, CA, Have you Seen Her, la Mision? show - Centro del Pueblo SF, CA, Films from the Mission - Artist Television Access SF, CA, Hispanic Heritage Committee presentation SF CA, Dance With/In the Eye - SF Cinematheque SF, CA, Cine MAS show Have You Seen Her, La Mision? Roxie Theatre SF, CA.