Celebrated Mexican/Chicanx performance artist Guillermo Gómez-Peña and his performance troupe La Pocha Nostra have spent their careers working with conceptual, social, and physical borders. Continually developing multilayered narratives and large-scale performance projects from a border perspective, Gómez-Peña and La Pocha Nostra create what critics have termed “Chicano cyber-punk performances” and “ethno-techno art.” With intimate access to the artist and his troupe, 100 Ways to Cross the Border unabashedly documents the impact of Gómez-Peña's work and his contributions to conversations on Latinx and Chicanx identity, politics, and border theory. (Amber Bemak, 2022, Spanish and English with English subtitles, DCP, 84 minutes)
Part of the ongoing series Art Films and Special Screenings.