Guillermo Gómez-Peña
Birthday: 1955-09-23
Place of Birth: Mexico City, Mexico
Biography: Guillermo Gómez-Peña is a Mexican/Chicano performance artist, writer, activist, and educator. Gómez-Peña has created work in multiple media, including performance art, experimental radio, video, photography and installation art. His ten books include essays, experimental poetry, performance scripts and chronicles in both English, Spanish and Spanglish.
Movies
Son of Border Crisis
In these seven short video performances directed by Isaac Artenstein, Gómez-Peña confronts Mexican-A...
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Border Brujo
Border Brujo is a ritual-linguistic journey across the U.S./Mexico border written and performed by a...
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Frontierland
This DVD examines the multiple points of cultural contact between the United States and Mexico. From...
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Seeing Is Believing
Film becomes a metaphor for lost history and its “negative“ impact on successive generations who loo...
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The Great Mojado Invasion, Part 2
Like a ghost from the future, "El Mad Mex’" narrates this hybrid-genre video, which envisions a queu...
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The Couple in the Cage
A witty satire about cultural stereotyping. In a series of 1992 performances, Coco Fusco and perform...
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A Song Often Played on the Radio
In a search for the mythological Cities of Cibola, a horseman finds himself in a race against anothe...
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Playing with Fire: An Ecosexual Emergency
From the creators of the first queer environmental documentary feature films comes a hot new offerin...
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