When our abuelitas cover their couches, their lamps, their TV sets—todo!—in clear plastic, what are they trying so desperately to protect? Our first project together, Latino Plastic Cover is a mock cable access commercial for the ultimate all-purpose product, guaranteed not only to keep dust off your muebles, but to solve all kinds of social ills affecting the Latino community & beyond. Discover the luxury of freedom! Winner, 2nd Place, NALIP NY Film Slam 2001. Screened at 'SpanicAttack in Lima, Perú (2004) and New York City (2005); the Encuentro de Mujeres in Cádiz, Spain (2004); the Havana Film Festival in New York (2005); Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco (2005);Muestra Nacional de Arte 2005-2006 Rewind... Rewind... Video arte puertorriqueño at the Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña in San Juan, Puerto Rico (2006);VIII SALON INTERNACIONAL DE ARTE DIGITAL in La Habana, Cuba (2006); VIII SALON INTERNACIONAL DE ARTE DIGITAL in La Habana, Cuba (2006); the video-art series Miradas de Mujer: doce video artistas iberoamericanas in Montevideo, Uruguay (2007); Centro Cultural Itaú in São Paulo (2008-2010)

Latino Plastic Cover

January 25, 2018 by Marlene Ramirez-Cancio

LATINO PLASTIC COVER
Because Plastic Is Forever
2000 | 01:15 min. | DV | Color

When our abuelitas cover their couches, their lamps, their TV sets—todo!—in clear plastic, what are they trying so desperately to protect? Our first project together, Latino Plastic Cover is a mock cable access commercial for the ultimate all-purpose product, guaranteed not only to keep dust off your muebles, but to solve all kinds of social ills affecting the Latino community & beyond. Discover the luxury of freedom!

CREDITS: Written, directed, produced by Fulana (Cristina Ibarra, Marlène Ramírez-Cancio, Lisandra Ramos-Grullón & Andrea Thome), edited by Cristina Ibarra. CAST: Lisandra Ramos-Grullón; Alex Rivera; Andrea Thome; Joe Thome; Cristina Ibarra; Marlène Ramírez-Cancio (voice-over).