Tamalero
Role: Short Film Director, Producer, Editor, DP
Date: 2022
Duration: 10 minutes
Role: Short Film Director, Producer, Editor, DP
Date: 2022
Duration: 10 minutes
Technical Details: 16mm transfer to HD color video, stereo sound, 4:3 aspect ratio
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.
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.
Screenings
Palm Springs International Shortfest
(World Premiere)
New Orleans Film Festival
(Best Experimental Short Film Audience Award)
Indie Memphis 2022
22nd Annual Artlink Exhibition
(Juried Selection)
Emerge Festival 2022
(Best Local Voice)
Treefort Microdose Film Festival 2023
Undoing Time: Art & Histories of Incarceration, pop-up event programmed by Julio Cesar Morales
Palm Springs International Shortfest
(World Premiere)
New Orleans Film Festival
(Best Experimental Short Film Audience Award)
Indie Memphis 2022
22nd Annual Artlink Exhibition
(Juried Selection)
Emerge Festival 2022
(Best Local Voice)
Treefort Microdose Film Festival 2023
Undoing Time: Art & Histories of Incarceration, pop-up event programmed by Julio Cesar Morales
Re-Entry Radio
Role: Sound Artist
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” ≈ “Jack”
Bruce Ward ≈ John Avila
“Trigger” ≈ “Jack”
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
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.
Bruce Ward, Kirn Kim and JP Avila performed, with Abby Galvin and myself providing facilitation and assistance.
Bruce Ward, Kirn Kim and JP Avila performed, with Abby Galvin and myself providing facilitation and assistance.
How To Run A Prison Store by Bruce Ward
How to Make Kimchi in Prison by Kirn Kim
Prison Pies, Valley Food by JP Avila
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