100 Ways to Cross the Border

Event Info

Date	04.14.24
Doors	3:30pm
Time	4pm–6pm
Format	Film Screening
Medium	Film
Admission	$15–25 Sliding Scale

Involved

Event artist	Guillermo Gómez Peña and Amber Bemak Guillermo Gómez-Peña Amber Bemak
Presented by	Co-Lab Projects Fusebox
Sponsored by	Austin Beerworks LALO Spirits
Funded by	Cultural Arts Division of the City of Austin Economic Development Department Texas Commission on the Arts HEB National Endowment for the Arts

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Co-Lab Projects, Fusebox Festival, and MoHA Present:

_100 Ways to Cross the Border_

A film by Amber Bemak

Written by Guillermo Gómez Peña and Amber Bemak

Sunday, April 14th, 4pm

With an introduction by Guillermo Gómez Peña at The Museum of Human Achievement  3600 Lyons Rd, Austin, TX 78702

A self-reflexive “performative documentary” on the extraordinary “Post Mexican/Chicanx” performance artist Guillermo Gómez-Peña’s 40-year career of radical artistic practice alongside his international troupe La Pocha Nostra. At a time when the mainstream media is filled with demonizing stories about the US–Mexico border, the film presents the philosophical frameworks of an artist with a sustained dedication to highly impactful, innovative artistic interventions on that border, and presents a unique portrait of his beloved troupe LPN on the road for 3 years. Featuring exclusive footage from his personal archive, Gómez-Peña enacts his artistic interventions by reclaiming and “queering the border” as a laboratory for utopian ideas and artistic experimentation.

Credits & Info

Length: 84 min

Director: Amber Bemak

Writers: Guillermo Gómez Peña and Amber Bemak 

Producers: Amber Bemak, Nadia Granados, Andrew Houchens 

Editor: Miguel Schverdfinger 

Subtitles in English and Spanish \*film is accessible to both English and Spanish speakers 

Promotional Excerpt: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aY1s6EaGFZw