Filmmography and Profile
Beatriz Flores Gutiérrez, MFA American/Media Studies, SUNY; BA Cinema, SFSU; Theater, CUC, Mex. DF.
Interdisciplinary artist: 16mm experimental film, video art, documentary/ethnographic film, audio art/radio, television, Performance, Installation, world cinema, American/Women studies.
Beatriz currently teaches at The Evergreen State College, with the Moving Image Group since 2006. Currently she is teaching Mediaworks in Context under the theme of Sustainability and Justice. This is a full time, three quarter program, which varies each year. Topics include: Film Hisotry, Theory and Criticism, 16mm Film, Audio Art, Video, Documentary, Installation, Experimental Television, and Performance, and a symposium with topics in S&J.
Beatriz has taught courses on film, video, audio, multimedia, television production and film theory (experimental film, ethnographic film, video art & installation, & world cinema) in different colleges and universities including Berkeley, San Francisco, New York, Texas, Chicago and Olympia, Washington.
Most recent works include:
MediaTo[u]r, Conversations along the Mexico-USA Border (On-going), Video, color, 60min. This documentary makes use of multi-sited ethnographic methodologies, and video as dialogical tool. This approach allows for a sustaining non-hierarchical conversation with people, groups and movements surrounding the Mexico-USA border crosser culture.
On Women’s Recipes 16mm, sound, color, 10min. experimental documentary and a Mural for the Buffalo’s Pan Am 2001 Exhibition, N.Y. Beatriz F.G. and Sonia M. visit the kitchens of Iroquois, Jamaican, African and Cuban women who speak of their culinary traditions and their preservation or adaptation of foods in the U.S.A. The conversations duel on acquisition of taste, memory, tradition, and ritual.
People’s Radio 45min. In this work, Beatriz documents the battle for free speech and the airwaves after the lock out of KPFA, a community supported radio station in Berkeley, CA. This non-traditional documentary engulfs the viewer in the people’s struggle, creativity, and determination.
Serious Humor 28min. Award winning radio documentary. In a journey of reflection and laughter, this work brings together the voices of cultural critics, comedians, and people from the community in an investigation of the role of humor in people’s lives. Beatriz envisioned this project as a way to lighten up the hearts of the activist community who often forget to laugh. Other three women joined her in her efforts making this project a complex cultural journey.