WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 5:00 P.M. - 7:15 P.M.

We will watch a television pilot and an independent feature film through the lens of Gloria Anzaldúa’s book, Light in the Dark / Luz en lo oscuro: Rewriting Identity, Spirituality, Reality

  • Vida, (s1, e1), “Pilot,” created by Tanya Saracho, directed by Alonso Ruizpalacios, 30 mins.

  • Quinceañera (2006), directed by Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland, 90 mins.

Latinx Research Center: 2547 Channing Way, Berkeley, CA 94704

Moonrise Screening: Join us for movie night at the LRC. Bring your own beverages and movie candies, we will bring the popcorn and coffee.

 
 

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4, 12:00 P.M. - 2:15 P.M.

We will watch works to map women of color’s meta-critiques of domination and oppositional movidas

  • “Tombola” (2001), created by Ximena Cuevas, 8 mins.

  • “Chicana” (1979), directed by Sylvia Morales, 21 mins. 

  • Salt of the Earth (1954), directed by Herbert J. Biberman, 92 mins. 

  • “Anita Torrez: Auto-historia/cuento of making Salt of the Earth (1954),” 6 mins.

  • Red Hollywood (1996) [excerpts], directed by Thom Andersen and Noël Burch, 4:34 mins.

Latinx Research Center: 2547 Channing Way, Berkeley, CA 94704

Brown Bag Screening: You are welcome to bring your lunch and enjoy it during the program. Drop in and dip out at any point.

 
 

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 11, 12:00 P.M. - 2:15 P.M.

We will watch films through the lens of Chela Sandoval’s book, Methodology of the Oppressed

  • “Spitfire,” “Anima,” “El Espejo,” created by Frances Salomé España, 17 mins.

  • !Viva 16! (1994), directed by [Tina] Valentin Aguirre and Augie Robles, 27 mins.

  • La Ofrenda: The Days of the Dead (1988), directed by Lourdes Portillo, 50 mins.

  • Looking (s2, e5), “Looking for Truth,” written by Tanya Saracho, directed by Andrew Haigh, 28 mins.

Latinx Research Center: 2547 Channing Way, Berkeley, CA 94704

Brown Bag Screening: You are welcome to bring your lunch and enjoy it during the program. Drop in and dip out at any point.

 
 

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 18, 5:00 P.M. - 7:15 P.M.

We will watch films through the lens of Maria Lugones’s book, Pilgrimages/peregrinajes: Theorizing Coalition Against Multiple Oppressions, especially the chapters 4: “World”-Traveling, and Loving Perception",” and 10: “Tactical Strategies of the Streetwalker / Estrategiasta´Cticasde Lacallejera”

  • Unidad: Gay & Lesbian Latinos Unidos (2022), directed by Gregorio Davila, 57 mins.

  • Artbound, “The Chinatown Punk Wars,” 57 mins. 

  • “Startrekking in the Twilight Zone” (2023), created by Agustin Cruz, 8 mins.

Latinx Research Center: 2547 Channing Way, Berkeley, CA 94704

Moonrise Screening: Join us for movie night at the LRC. Bring your own beverages and movie candies, we will bring the popcorn and coffee.

 
 

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 25, 5:00 P.M. - 7:15 P.M.

We will watch films through the lens of Maria Lugones’s book, Pilgrimages/peregrinajes: Theorizing Coalition Against Multiple Oppressions, especially the chapters 4: “World”-Traveling, and Loving Perception",” and 10: “Tactical Strategies of the Streetwalker / Estrategiasta´Cticasde Lacallejera”

  • “St. Francis of Aztlan” (1997), directed by Rita Gonzalez, 18 mins.

  • TBA

Latinx Research Center: 2547 Channing Way, Berkeley, CA 94704

Moonrise Screening: Join us for movie night at the LRC. Bring your own beverages and movie candies, we will bring the popcorn and coffee.

 
 

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 8, 12:00 P.M. - 2:15 P.M.

We will watch various works through the lens of the anthology, José Esteban Muñoz: The Sense of Being Brown, especially chapters 1: “The Brown Commons,” and 5: “Chico, What Does It Feel Like to Be a Problem? The Transmission of Brownness”

  • “Neapolitan” (2003), created by Nao Bustamante, 3 mins.

  • “Dreaming of Billy Dreaming of Gabriel” (2024), created by Agustín Cruz, 5 mins.

  • “La Mesa,” directed by Adrian Gomez Garcia, 10 mins.

  • “ASCO Super 8” (unknown), created by Harry Gamboa, Jr., 12 mins.

  • “Mi Vida Loca” (1993), directed by Allison Anders, 92 mins.

Latinx Research Center: 2547 Channing Way, Berkeley, CA 94704

Brown Bag Screening: You are welcome to bring your lunch and enjoy it during the program. Drop in and dip out at any point.

 
 

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 15, 12:00 P.M. - 2:15 P.M.

We will watch various works through the lens of the anthology, José Esteban Muñoz: The Sense of Being Brown, especially chapters 1: “The Brown Commons,” and 5: “Chico, What Does It Feel Like to Be a Problem? The Transmission of Brownness”

  • “Los Vendidos” (1967, 1972), directed by Luis Valdez, 18 mins.

  • The Decline of Western Civilization (1981), excerpt of The Bags performing “Gluttony,” directed by Penelope Spheris, 2:34 mins.

  • “Spark” (2020), music video featuring Alice Bag, directed by Rudy Bleu Garcia, 2:38.

  • TBA

Latinx Research Center: 2547 Channing Way, Berkeley, CA 94704

Brown Bag Screening: You are welcome to bring your lunch and enjoy it during the program. Drop in and dip out at any point.

 
 

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22, 12:00 P.M. - 2:15 P.M.

We will watch films through the lens of PJ DiPietro’s book, Sideways Selves: Travesti and Jotería Struggles Across the Américas, especially chapters 1: “Sideways Selves, Realidades Atravesadas,” and 2: “The Coloniality of Transgender

  • El Sueño Travesti (2016), directed by Flavio Florencio, 23 mins.

  • Chavela (2017), directed by Catherine Gund and Daresha Kyi, 93 mins.

Latinx Research Center: 2547 Channing Way, Berkeley, CA 94704

Brown Bag Screening: You are welcome to bring your lunch and enjoy it during the program. Drop in and dip out at any point.

 
 

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 29, 12:00 P.M. - 2:15 P.M.

To be announced.

  • TBA

Latinx Research Center: 2547 Channing Way, Berkeley, CA 94704

Brown Bag Screening: You are welcome to bring your lunch and enjoy it during the program. Drop in and dip out at any point.

 
 

Past Screenings

 
 

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 5:00 P.M. - 7:15 P.M.

We watched films through the lens of the anthology, A Handbook of Latinx Art, edited by Rocío Aranda-Alvarado and Deborah Cullen-Morales

Latinx Research Center: 2547 Channing Way, Berkeley, CA 94704

Moonrise Screening: Join us for movie night at the LRC. Bring your own beverages and movie candies, we will bring the popcorn and coffee.

 
 

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 12 P.M. - 2:15 P.M.

We will watch short works inspired by Clarissa Pinkola-Estés book Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype

  • Lost L.A. (s2, e1), “Borderlands,” created by Nathan Masters, 27 mins.

  • Reservation Dogs (s3, e3), “Deer Lady,” created by Sterlin Harjo and Taika Waititi, 30 mins.

  • Wednesday (s1, e1), “Wednesday’s Child is Full of Woe,” directed by Tim Burton, 57 mins.

Latinx Research Center: 2547 Channing Way, Berkeley, CA 94704

Brown Bag Screening: You are welcome to bring your lunch and enjoy it during the program. Drop in and dip out at any point.