Detroit's Rivera - Screening and Conversation with Julio Ramos

Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs

Program on Latin America and the Caribbean

present

Detroit's Rivera - Screening and Conversation with Julio Ramos

A documentary on the process of production of Diego Rivera's Detroit Industry Frescos and the murals' agitated social context during the years of the Great Depression. The documentary's remarkable archival montage explores the links between industrial labor, public art, and industrial cinema under the exigencies of Fordism.

Directed and written by Julio Ramos

Sponsoring Departments: Program on Latin America and the Caribbean (PLACA), Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs, Department of Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics, Centro de Estudios Hispánicos, Latino-Latin American Studies Program (LLAS)

For more information, contact Havva Karakas-Keles, hkarakas@syr.edu