Dudley Drama & Film members: Don't miss video artist Luis Valdovino this Friday night at the Carpenter Center/Harvard Film Archive. 60 minutes of Experimental Short Films with Luis Valdovino (video artist, Argentina/USA) B-04, Carpenter Center (Harvard Film Archive) Friday April 22, 7pm The Short Films: 1. Dia de Los Muertos (The Last of the 20th Century), 1:32 min. video, Dan Boord/Luis Valdovino, 2001 The rich iconography of Dia de los Muertos, the spirit of Luis Bunel, the music of Duke Ellington and a group of tourists share the last celebration of Day of the Dead of the 20th Century somewhere in Mexico. Warning: this celebration might not be suitable for vegetarians. 2. Standards, 25:57 min. video, Dan Boord/Luis Valdovino 2000 A travelogue of portions of the USA, Europe and Latin America mixes the concept of standards with facts and fiction to explore the state of our culture at the end of the 20th Century. 3. Cocteau Cento, 5:49 min. video, Dan Boord/Luis Valdovino, 2003 This experimental video takes the form of a cento -- a literary work made up of parts from other works. It pays homage to the work of the poet, playwright, artist and filmmaker Jean Cocteau. Mixing footage from several of his films, writings from Cocteau and his contemporaries, and a sound design made up entirely from those writings, the self-reflexive nature of the tape explores many of Cocteau's recurrent themes in the form of a cento: a collage of intensely personal poetic symbols which attempt to evoke the sacrificial nature of art and the relationships among poetry, myth, death, and the unconscious mind. 4. Themes, 28:24 min. video, Dan Boord/Luis Valdovino, 2004 It is a new year and a new century. Themes resumes the travelogue begun in Standards. What will the new and improved future bring? Film-maker (in person): Luis Valdovino Native of Argentina, Luis Valdovino is an video artist and associate professor of art at the University of Colorado, Boulder, CO. His works have been exhibited at MOMA, NYC; The Museum of Contemporary Art, LA; The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco; Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy; The Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; The Institute of Contemporary Art, London; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Centro Nacional de Las Artes, Mexico City; Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago; Berlin Video Festival; World Wide Video Festival, The Hague; Toronto Film Festival; Edinburgh Film Festival, and Oberhausen Film Festival. Valdovino's videos have been presented at the 37th and 50th Robert Flaherty Film Seminar, The Kitchen, New York, and broadcasted on "Independent Focus" at WNET and Deep Dish Network, New York. In addition, he has produced several award winning tapes in collaboration with Dan Boord and has curated the programs "La Voz Latina: Latina/o Video Art from the U.S.A." that have been screened throughout Latin America, Europe, and the United States. Dan Boord: Dan Boord is a video artist and a professor at the University of Colorado, Boulder. His work has been exhibited at the Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC; MOMA, NYC; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; The Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid; and many more venues around the world. His work has been broadcasted on WNET, New York and WGBH, Boston, presented at the International Public Television Conference in Stockholm and at the 50th Robert Flaherty Film Seminar. In addition, he has collaborated with Luis Valdovino in several award winning videos.