Filmmakers and Producers

Luis Valdovino

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Patagonia
Dan Boord & Luis Valdovino
1996, 29 min., Color, US
Patagonia takes the form of a diary about a crisis in cultural identity. It tells the story of two trips one to Patagonia and the other to the United States. The video chronicles how the main character has become a permanent tourist. The action is episodic, the structure open ended -- a hop-scotch o...

A Refutation of Time
Dan Boord & Greg Durbin & Luis Valdovino
1997, 8 min., Color, US/Argentina
A student from the Large Midwestern Universe receives an unusual e-mail message in the Logic Lab. The communication concerns, the nature of time, tango singer Carlos Gardel, the humorist Will Rodgers, writer Jorge Luis Borges and contains an offer to cruise Route 66 on the Web. It provides relief fo...

Work in Progress
Luis Valdovino
1990, 14 min., Color, US
This thoughtfully crafted experimental documentary explores the effects of the 1986 Immigration Reform upon illegal immigrants that could not file for amnesty. The video uses a biting humor in a provocative collage of interviews, stock footage, image processing, presenting the complex forces that s...

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