SFAI Screening Series 2

Date: Sunday, July 20th

Time: 2pm

Venue: Santa Fe Art Institute’s Library 

Address: 1600 St. Michael’s Drive #31, Santa Fe, NM 87505

Filmmaker Names: Bel Falleiros, Denise Uyehara, and Diego Robles

Programmed & Curated by: Diego Robles & Bertha Alicia Aguilar Garcia 

Total Duration for the Screenings (before Q and A): 2 hrs 14 minutes approximately 

Bel Falleiros’ Film/Videos:

1. Title: Ripple Stories (Haverstraw)

Duration: 13 mins (will show an excerpt from the 29 minute link below)

Description: The video-performance is a small gesture of rearranging bricks found in the bottom of the Hudson River as a remnant of the brickyard industry.  Playing with the tide, Falleiros arranged them in a concentric ripple during a low tide.  This ephemeral monument would later be covered by the high tide again. What are the stories that remain to be remembered?  What can they tell us?  Could we use shared stories of extraction and exploitation as a reminder to cultivate a more balanced way of being with both nature and each other? 

Year: 2021

Denise Uyeharas’ Film/Videos:

1. Title: Continental Drift from Ancestral Cartographic Rituals

Duration: 3 mins

Description: A performance video by Denise Uyehara and James Luna; videography by Cait NiSimon. What happens when Indigenous artists test their DNA? How do their findings confirm, authenticate, or contradict traditional creation stories? In this new interdisciplinary work-in-progress, award-winning performance artists James Luna and Denise Uyehara investigate “cultural authenticity,” as it relates to Pacific Rim, evolution and migration, and the here and now.

Year: 2017

1. Title: The Old Ones 

Duration: 5 mins

Description: Two girls finding their mysterious ancestry. This is a film made with family and friends.

Year: 2021

Diego Robles’ Film/Videos:

1. Title: Untitled Documentary on Lisa Ley (a work-in-progress)

Duration: 1 hr 53 minutes

Description: This is archival material of Lisa Ley, a family friend. This is what is left of a very large archive of video material she made in the early-to-mid 19080’s. This is also footage that will be featured in a documentary that is currently a work-in-progress, that includes amateur documentary footage Diego took of Lisa in the early 2000’s, along with writings written in 2025, reflecting on the teachings Lisa gave Diego and others locally in her South San Diego community.  

Year: 2025

Date

July 20, 2025

Time

2:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Location

Santa Fe Art Institute + Google Map
1600 Saint Michaels Drive
Santa Fe, NM 87505 United States