TANIA LIBRE

Showings

Vogue Theatre Fri, Jun 9, 2017 7:00 PM
Film Info
Director:Lynn Hersman Leeson
Film Category:Art
Activist
Running Time:73 min.
Country:USA
Premiere:Local Filmmaker
VOGUE OPENING NIGHT FILM

Description

VOGUE OPENING NIGHT FILM

Dr Frank Ochberg is a psychiatrist and trauma specialist. He specializes in post-traumatic stress disorder. Cuban artist Tania Bruguera consults him after serving an eight months prison sentence. A dissident, she was accused of treason for a performance she was developing that was critical of the government. During her conversations with her therapist she analyses the revolutionary potential of art and how the short-term, spontaneous and transitory nature of performance art represents a means to criticise the Cuban government. Hershman Leeson's work often addresses the relationship between identity construction and technology, as well as questions of surveillance, civil rights, and censorship



 

Co-presented with Cine+Mas.