Current Project
Working Title: Hecho en México
Liza Bambenek = DP, Dir., Editor
Adrianne McCurrach = Producer


This documentary follows artists Melissa Dyne and Jen Hofer as they complete the installation of a camera obscura in Mexico City: the first of a number of works in their project series entitled, Hysteresis, which features older technologies in a modern world.

The physical construction of the camera gradually shifts into an observation of the many tribulations of making art in public spaces: in every sense of the phrase... There's the park residents, the Mexican government, conflicting designers, materials that never arrive, rain that never stops, beauracracy that never lets up, the translations, the fabrication, the metal, the cement, the glass, the time, the money and don't forget: the people.

Hecho en México is about seeing in every kind of way. The camera obscura shows us what is in front of us already. It reminds us of our own gaze and how we choose to frame our views. The camera obscura becomes its own metaphor.

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