TamaleroRole: Short Film Director, Producer, Editor, DP
Date: 2022
Duration: 10 minutes
Date: 2022
Duration: 10 minutes
16mm transfer to HD color video, stereo sound
10 min 26 sec
4:3 aspect ratio
2022
Tamalero highlights JP Avila’s Prison Pies food cart and the tamales he learned how to make with limited access to ingredients while incarcerated. As a communal and cultural ritual that started in childhood with his grandmother and continued into his time in prison, JP’s concept of sharing his story through his food business today offers everyone a glimpse of what ingenuity and conviviality taste like in prison.
Official Selection:
Palm Springs International Shortfest 2022 (World Premiere)
New Orleans Film Festival 2022 · Winner · Audience Award · Best Experimental Short Film
Indie Memphis 2022
22nd Annual Artlink Exhibition (Juried Selection)
Emerge Festival 2022 · Winner · Best Local Voice
Treefort Microdose Film Festival 2023
Undoing Time: Art & Histories of Incarceration, pop-up event programmed by Julio Cesar Morales
10 min 26 sec
4:3 aspect ratio
2022
Tamalero highlights JP Avila’s Prison Pies food cart and the tamales he learned how to make with limited access to ingredients while incarcerated. As a communal and cultural ritual that started in childhood with his grandmother and continued into his time in prison, JP’s concept of sharing his story through his food business today offers everyone a glimpse of what ingenuity and conviviality taste like in prison.
Official Selection:
Palm Springs International Shortfest 2022 (World Premiere)
New Orleans Film Festival 2022 · Winner · Audience Award · Best Experimental Short Film
Indie Memphis 2022
22nd Annual Artlink Exhibition (Juried Selection)
Emerge Festival 2022 · Winner · Best Local Voice
Treefort Microdose Film Festival 2023
Undoing Time: Art & Histories of Incarceration, pop-up event programmed by Julio Cesar Morales
Re-Entry RadioRole: Sound Artist
Date: 2021
Duration: 23 minutes
Location: “Undoing Time,” ASU Art Musuem, pop-up event curated by Julio Cesar Morales
Date: 2021
Duration: 23 minutes
Location: “Undoing Time,” ASU Art Musuem, pop-up event curated by Julio Cesar Morales
Sound work, stereo.
Featuring Bruce Ward, John Avila, “Trigger,” and “Jack.”
The following description is written by Bruce Ward:
“Hi my name is Bruce ward. For the last seven years I've been working as a peer educator and mentor inside the Arizona Department of Corrections. I've been teaching Artwork and meditation. On an individual level I help people build the coping skills that would allow someone to re-enter into society from incarceration. I spent the last year going through the process of Reentry and wanted to help construct a road map for the next guy getting out.
Re-entry Radio helps to explain the culture shock that a formerly incarcerated person will now face in the outside world. This project has the potential to have more voices and to educate not only the public about this transitional period in people's lives but to help people with difficulties through their own process.”
Featuring Bruce Ward, John Avila, “Trigger,” and “Jack.”
The following description is written by Bruce Ward:
“Hi my name is Bruce ward. For the last seven years I've been working as a peer educator and mentor inside the Arizona Department of Corrections. I've been teaching Artwork and meditation. On an individual level I help people build the coping skills that would allow someone to re-enter into society from incarceration. I spent the last year going through the process of Reentry and wanted to help construct a road map for the next guy getting out.
Re-entry Radio helps to explain the culture shock that a formerly incarcerated person will now face in the outside world. This project has the potential to have more voices and to educate not only the public about this transitional period in people's lives but to help people with difficulties through their own process.”
Prison Pies,
Valley Food Role: Social Practice Artist in collaboration with Three Performances
Date: 2021
Duration: 20 minutes
Location: “Undoing Time,” ASU Art Musuem, pop-up event curated by Julio Cesar Morales
Valley Food Role: Social Practice Artist in collaboration with Three Performances
Date: 2021
Duration: 20 minutes
Location: “Undoing Time,” ASU Art Musuem, pop-up event curated by Julio Cesar Morales
This storytelling and performance project centered the experiences of three men who shared their experiences around food while incarcerated. Artist Abby Galvin and myself provided facilitation and assistance to prepare and produce these performance for “Undoing Time,” ASU Art Musuem, pop-up event curated by Julio Cesar Morales.
Performance of “Prison Pies” and “Valley Food” by JP Avila
Performance of “How to Make Kimchi in Prison” by Kirn Kim
Performance of “How to Run a Prison Store” by Bruce Ward
Performance of “Prison Pies” and “Valley Food” by JP Avila
Performance of “How to Make Kimchi in Prison” by Kirn Kim
Performance of “How to Run a Prison Store” by Bruce Ward
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