"Gero Arte" was filmed in the Basque Country, in Northern Spain. The story was inspired by a memory I have of a beloved friend when I was twelve years old, and living in Gernika. I remember my friend, (RIP), as one of the most loving, caring, funny, giving, beautiful girls I ever met. Her mother was this young beautiful woman, hard working. I would see her cleaning apartments, and doing what ever it took to care for her children, because her husband was away in the USA, working as a sheep herder. Eventually it became clear that my friend's father had no intention of returning, and as soon as he was prospering, he abandoned his family back home for a new one in America. GERO ARTE honors my friend, and re-imagines a more positive scenario and transcending ending. What if these two half siblings came together and made amends.
GERO ARTE, 15 min., shot on Cannon 7D in English with some subtitled, Spanish and Euskera. Written by Begonya Plaza, Directed by Nahuel Losada, Starring: Ainhoa Aierbe, Patxi Barco, & Begonya Plaza; Camera: Alain Consonni, Sound: Jon Fika, Art Direction: Antonio Galvez, Editing: Taji Ameen, Music: Kepa Junkera. Produced by: Izar Productions, CreAv, and Nahuel Losada, all rights reserved, March 13, 2014.
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October 16, 2013
Tuve el gran placer de ser entrevistada por Felix y Kike IFlandia Radio Euskadi. Es un programa divertido, interesante sobre cultura y arte. Para todos los de habla hispana les recomiendo descargar sus podcasts.
and on October 15, 2013
"Do the Blind Dream?" by Barry Gifford
A private reading by the theater group BLACK LODGE THEATER, directed by Alexandra Siladi
The play takes place in Fùlmine, a small town close to the sea in the south of Italy. Beatrice, a woman in her seventies, has just died, and her children are gathering to attend her funeral. Aldo, Beatrice's son, and Sandra, her eldest daughter, arrive at the house of "Aunt" Rosa, their mother's caregiver in her last years——Beatrice suffered from Alzheimer's disease——with their respective spouses, Giuliana and Ignazio. Cara, Beatrice's younger daughter, a famous actress, arrives with her American boyfriend, Buddy. The family, along with Aunt Rosa and two men from the funeral home, and later, a Priest, constitute the main cast.
"Do the Blind Dream?" is a title built on double entendre: Does anyone, sighted or not, see the truth of daily events? To paraphrase the poet Delmore Schwartz, in dreams reside responsibilities.
As the action proceeds we become acquainted with the jealousies, rivalries and secrets concerning the immediate family and the (mostly——as well as ghostly) absent father and husband. As everyone talks we begin to discern how and why they lie——not only to each other but to themselves. The only person among them who retains a true sense of her self, as well as a measure of elegance, is Beatrice, the dead woman, who in life did not speak a coherent sentence in her final years. Here, however, she is free to talk, liberated in death as she was imprisoned in life by convention, a bad marriage and, finally, illness.
Also at issue here is the recurrent clash between generations, the traditional and the new; between a burned out culture struggling to be reborn and an often vulgar contemporary one. Cara, despite the serious differences between her and Beatrice, emerges as the one among the children to best represent the values and spirit of their mother. As the family members wrangle, recriminate and stumble toward rapprochement, Buddy, the "visitor from another planet" as one character describes him, is able to pick up and follow the thread of truth as it unravels. And, of course, it is left for Beatrice to have the last word.
A LUCID DREAM:
First Private Reading - Friday, September 23rd, 2011 @ 8PM & Saturday 24th at 2PM - La Nacional: 239 West 14th Street (btwn 7th & 8th avenues)
Jackie Shark is the Host, the Joker, and God, as she chats in this interview setting with Hispanic historical characters: Eva Perón, Simón Bolivar, Dolores Ibarruri, and Antonio Machín. As these guests flaunt their heroism, humbling secrets are also unveiled that lead them back to a path of true realization.
Antonio Machín, 1903 - 1977 - One of the most recorded Cuban singers of the 20th century who in 1930 became a hit wonder in New York with the song, El manisero (The Peanut Vendor), becoming the first Cuban song to sell over a million copies around the world, presaging the rumba explosion of the 1930s. Died in Sevilla, Spain where he lived most of his life.
PLAYED BY: Rick Reid
Maria Eva (Ibarguren) Perón “Evita” (1919-1952) Argentinian leader and 2nd wife of Juan Perón. In her time Evita was the most powerful woman in the world.
PLAYED BY: Elizabeth Inghram
Simón Bolivar (1783 – 1830)
Liberator of the Americas, leading the independence movement for 6 nations in northern South America. The George Washington of Spanish America.
Dolores Ibarruri “Pasionaria” (1895 – 1989)
A Basque woman of indomitable spirit and a great Spaniard who founded the Spanish Communist party, and won international renown during the Spanish Civil War for her courage defending Republican Spain against Franco.
PLAYED BY: Dana Jacks
HOST / JACKIE SHARK / JOKER & GOD
PLAYED BY: Diana Oh
DIRECTED BY: Alberto Bonilla