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David De Rozas

Give

Documentaire | hdv | couleur | 16:20 | USA | 2017

Challenging traditional documentary practices with experimental approaches to editing and sound, GIVE explores Roland Gordon’s motivations to create a monumental visual archive displaying centuries of black agency and achievements, in the United States and beyond. Roland’s collage, "The Cloud of Witnesses", is comprised of thousands of photographic portraits,newspapers, and magazines cutouts, presenting an alternative visual history to empower the black community. The film explores collective representations of history, memory, and culture; where pasts, presents, and futures are modeled by the blending of imagination, facts, and love.

Born in Southern Europe, David de Rozas is a filmmaker and artist based in California, US. His interests relate to the politics of history, memory, and identity through a range of mediums and formats. His practice combines audiovisual research, film production, and curatorial projects. These include art center displays and program strategies, lectures, film programs, documentaries, written and film essays, and other forms and sites of knowledge production. David earned an MFA in Cinema at the San Francisco State University, and BA in Fine Arts from the Complutense University in Madrid. His projects have been recently screened and displayed at the Winnipeg Underground Film Festival, SOMARTS, UCLA, CSU Media Arts Festival, FLEXfest, Artist’s Television Access, Southern Exposure, and the Prelinguer Library among others. He is currently lecturer at SFSU School of Cinema.