Angel Nevarez & Valerie Tevere

HD video, color, sound
35 minutes
English and Spanish
2015

Memory of a Time Twice Lived extends from Chris Marker’s La Jetée by way of the accordion and the Mexican wrestler El Santo. The film imparts a Latin American and decolonial twist on the French Avant-garde building a field of relations which tie together 20th century mythic heroes, the taxidermy collection of the Wagner Free Institute of Science (Philadelphia), El Santo, and the accordion as a nomadic instrument. The work includes a concert arranged for film and an accordionist performing throughout. Shot on location in Philadelphia, Mexico City, and Hidalgo, México, this work is a journey through musical tempo, cinematic time, and the excavation of an image.

Featuring (in order of appearance):
José Padilla, Accordionist
Members of the band Jarana Beat: Lautaro Burgos, Drums/Percussion; Juan Lucero, Bajo Sexto; Sinuhé Padilla Isunza, Leona Bass; George Sáenz, Accordion
Jessica Beshir, Voice-over
Daniel Ramirez, the man
Kate Ünver, the woman
Maria de la Luz Hernandez, Guide, Museo El Santo
Roberto Y. Shimizu, Director, Museo del Juguete Antiguo México
Anonymous, El Santo
Susan Glassman, Director, The Wagner Free Institute of Science
Lynn Dorwaldt, Librarian, The Wagner Free Institute of Science

Directed, Edited, and Sound Design by:
Angel Nevarez and Valerie Tevere

Project Curator:
Kate Kraczon

Camera:
Angel Nevarez, Daniel Ramirez, and Valerie Tevere

Production Assistance:
Don Azuma and Peter Shearer

Translation:
Carla Herrera-Prats and Iciar Sagaraminaga

Graphic Design:
Samayra Williams

Funding and support for Memory of a Time Twice Lived comes from the Creative Capital Foundation; Art Matters; the PSC-CUNY Research Award Program; Division of Humanities and Social Sciences, College of Staten Island / City University of New York; Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia; and Penn Design.

Special thanks to: Natalia Almada, Don Azuma, Robert Botto, Regine Basha, Jessica Beshir, Robert Blackson, Centro Cultural Mexicano Philadelphia, Kara Crombie, Lisa Dent, Lynn Dorwaldt, Sean Elwood, Ana Flores, Nicholas Forker, David Gerstner, Susan Glassman, Stamatina Gregory, Nate Harrison, Maria de la Luz Hernandez, Carla Herrera-Prats, Lori Hiris, Nina Hoechtl, Maryam Jafri, Jarana Beat, Kate Kraczon, Ronisha LaBarrie, Jesse Lerner, Ruby Lerner, Tara Mateik, Dept. of Media Culture, CSI/CUNY, Cuauhtémoc Medina, SVA MFA Fine Arts, NY, Ricardo Miranda Zuñiga, Amanda McDonald Crowley, Matthew Neff, Giana Vero Nevarez Tevere, Rubén Ortiz-Torres, José Paredes, Gabriel Perez-Barriero, Jenny Perlin, Daniel Ramirez, Roberto Y. Shimizu, Roberto Yuuichi Shimizu, Iciar Sagarminaga, Cara Scharf, Peter Shearer, Brooke Singer, SOMA México D.F., G. John Tevere, Judith Tevere, Eduardo Thomas, Kate Ünver, The Wagner Free Institute of Science, and Samayra Williams.