Artists Call Against US Intervention in Central America

Description:

Western Front presented a screening event as part of the Artists Call Against US Intervention in Central America—an artist-led activist campaign and solidarity network founded in New York City in 1983. Mobilizations took the form of teach-ins, film screenings, exhibitions, concerts, mail art exchanges, performance, and poetry readings.

This evening featured two films: Manzana Por Manzana by John Greyson, Eric Schultz, and Mary Anne Yanulis (1983); and Tempo de Guerre by Nick Bertoni and Jules Backus (1983).

Manzana Por Manzana is a thirty-five-minute documentary set in the northwestern farming district of the Honduran border. The film explores the role of collective farms, the agrarian reform program, and the mass organization in rebuilding the country; plus how Nicaraguan resources were diverted to defending borders against the US backed contras.

Tempo de Guerre is an eighteen-minute documentary made in San Francisco by the Nicaragua Solidarity Networkers.

The screening took place as part of the exhibition South of the Border, curated in collaboration with 911, Seattle.