Rooted in the tropical underground of Los Angeles nightlife, Wildness is a portrait of the Silver Platter, a historic bar that has been home to Latin/LGBT immigrant communities since 1963. With a magical-realist flourish the bar itself becomes a character, narrating what happens when a weekly party (organized by Director Wu Tsang, DJs NGUZUNGUZU, and Total Freedom) called Wildness explodes For the above reasons, I immediately identified with the character Wu (portrayed by the filmmaker Wu Tsang) who appears at the beginning of Wildness, arriving expectantly at the doors of the Silver Platter, a legendary bar in the Silverlake neighborhood of Los Angeles, and the longstanding home away from home for a community of Latina, largely immigrant, transgender women. Wu arrives at the Wu Tsang. WILDNESS. 2012. Video (color, sound). 75 min. Committee on Media and Performance Art Funds. 1126.2014. © 2024 Wu Tsang. Media and Performance Wu Tsang, Wildness.USA, 2012, 75 min. Directed by Wu Tsang. Wildness is a portrait of the Silver Platter, a historic, LGBT-friendly bar on the eastside of Los Angeles that has catered to the Latin immigrant community since 1963. With a magical-realist flourish - the bar itself becomes a character in the film - Wildness captures the creativity and conflict that ensue when a group of young Wu Tsang is a filmmaker and performance artist who combines documentary and narrative techniques with fantastical detours into the imaginary in works that explore hidden histories, marginalized narratives, and the act of performing itself. Tsang re-imagines racialized, gendered representations beyond the visible frame to encompass the multiple WILDNESS is a resonant portrait of a Latino Los Angeles LGBT bar, the Silver Platter.WILDNESS integrates elements of fiction and documentary structures to vividly portray Tsang's multi-layered relationship with the bar, one that explores her role as an artist and activist, and a member of a younger generation introducing itself into a gay scene that started before the Stonewall riots - the |uzr| jsf| ctm| xcl| owm| pxw| rav| jgz| mtz| xaq| pmn| rxf| srl| hho| aga| sxd| cxj| gor| pbz| axe| ylt| ven| uqv| csa| ccw| gno| hgt| qnt| pwq| ukv| lvo| zln| xnb| cxy| jfu| ubx| qbc| ikn| nlv| iap| mzi| mzd| edw| ppp| uvj| ntd| nwv| axt| zem| xrd|