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Fall Film Series: Farmingville
September 13, 2018 @ 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Our fall film series will transpire during AHA! nights in New Bedford. We’re kicking it off with the award-winning 2004 documentary Farmingville, a provocative, complex, and emotionally charged look into the ongoing nationwide controversy surrounding a suburban community, its ever-expanding population of illegal immigrants, and the shockingly hate-based attempted murders of two Mexican day laborers.
We will begin the screening with a short clip from Mexican artist Adriana Kong, and we will hear about a collaborative video workshop with Kong that is part of the “Vecinos” exhibition, coming to New Bedford in October.
About Farmingville:
“It may well be the most important film to debut at the Sundance Film Festival…It is an absolutely terrific documentary on a complex, difficult subject. …and allows us to get to know all sides of this dispute.”
— Lou Dobbs, Lou Dobbs Tonight, CNN
About Vecinos:
Vecinos, a temporary art gallery + interactive platform occurring October 4-7, in an interstitial space in New Bedford, MA. It’s purpose is to host intercambio (exchange) between Mexico and the U.S. through various public events + workshops , to create a dialogue around the meaning of ‘vecinos’ (neighbors) while sculpting + archiving intimate perceptual portraits of living story and human experience. More info: www.miiapii.com/vecinos