Come support The Sonosopher

As many Pipeline readers know I am helping two UVSC students produce a documentary examining the life and work of Alex Caldiero. Tonight at 7:00pm we are holding an event to raise money to help cover production costs for the film. The event will take place in SC206a and feature Alex performing pieces from well-known Italian poets. There will also be a silent auction of items donated by Alex, his friends, and students working on the film.

Please come and bring your wallets.

A speaker you can't afford to miss: Julian Cardona

For many in the UVSC community last semester's "Leave To Enter" lecture featuring professors Aled Caldiero, Scott Carrier, and writer Charles Bowden was one of the best speaking engagements the school has seen. Bowden has been one of the most important voices on the issues surrounding the US/Mexico border.

Now UVSC will get a chance to hear from Bowden's collaborator Julian Cardona. Born in 1960 in Zacatecas, Mexico, Julián Cardona migrated to the border city of Juárez with his family as a small child. He attended school in Juárez, received vocational training, and worked as a technician in the maquiladora industry. In 1991, Cardona returned to Zacatecas to teach basic photography at the Centro Cultural de Zacatecas; two years later, he started his photojournalism career at El Fronterizo and El Diario de Juárez. In 1995, Cardona organized the group exhibition, "Nada que ver—Nothing to See,” in Juárez, featured in Harper's Magazine (Charles Bowden, “While You Were Sleeping: in Juárez, Mexico, photographers expose the violent realities of free trade) in December 1996. Photographs from this exhibition inspired the award-winning book, Juárez: The Laboratory of Our Future (Aperture 1998). His photographs taken inside foreign-owned factories in Juárez were also featured in "Camera of Dirt" (Aperture 159, 2000).

Cardona will be showing some of his photos used in Exodus, the new book he compiled with Bowden. The lecture will be held on February 26 at 1 PM in the Ragan Theater. It is free and open to the public.

Integrated Studies project puts students behind the camera

OK...Full disclosure time: I am working as the Producer of this project. But I feel this is the kind of story I would cover even if I wasn't involved.

Two UVSC students have begun filming a full-length documentary with Artist-in-Residence Alex Calderio as the subject. The film, tentatively called The Sonosopher, is the senior capstone project for integrated studies students Torben Bernhard and Travis Low.

Recently The College Times did an amazing full-page spread concerning the filmmakers and their subject. You can find it here.

There are two different websites concerning the production of The Sonosopher and you can find them here:

mannerofoperation.blogspot.com

thesonosopher.blogspot.com

Bernhard and Low have just secured a CEL grant that will help them cover some of the costs involved with the production. Their plans include following Caldiero as he travels to New York City and to his homeland of Sicily.