ASCO: WITHOUT PERMISSION

(Travis Gutiérrez Senger, USA/Mexico, 90 min. In English)

Executive produced by Gael García Bernal and Diego Luna, Travis Gutiérrez Senger’s engrossing, genre-defying debut feature explores the revolutionary Chicano art group ASCO, who transformed 1970s LA into a bold, defiant canvas. Merging activism with radical artmaking, the artistic collective confronted the norms of Hollywood, museums, and media, and have since been recognized among the 20th century’s most significant artists. ASCO: Without Permission, winner of the Cinema Tropical Award for Best U.S. Latinx Film, captures their boundary-breaking spirit with an inventive approach, weaving nonfiction and fiction together with a new generation of artists. The result is more than a profile—it’s a reimagining of what’s possible in art and cinema, celebrating iconoclasts who were decades ahead of their time.

ASCO: SIN PERMISO

(Travis Gutiérrez Senger, Estados Unidos/México, 90 min. En inglés)

De los productores ejecutivos Gael García Bernal y Diego Luna, la fascinante y transgresora ópera prima de Travis Gutiérrez Senger explora al colectivo artístico chicano ASCO, que transformó el Los Ángeles de los años setenta en un lienzo audaz y desafiante. Fusionando activismo y creación radical, el colectivo confrontó las normas de Hollywood, los museos y los medios de comunicación, y hoy es reconocido entre los artistas más significativos del siglo XX. Ganadora del Premio Cinema Tropical a Mejor Película Latina de Estados Unidos., ASCO: Sin permiso captura su espíritu rupturista con una propuesta inventiva que entrelaza ficción y no ficción junto a una nueva generación de artistas. Más que un retrato, es una reimaginación de lo posible en el arte y el cine, celebrando a iconoclastas adelantados a su tiempo.

Cinema Tropical and the Center for Latin American Studies at the University of Arizona present Cinema Tucsón, a cultural initiative launched in 2021, featuring monthly screenings of Mexican films at the historic Fox Tucson Theatre.

Programmed by Carlos A. Gutiérrez and Vicky Westover.

As Mexican cinema continues to generate world-wide enthusiasm, the creative team behind the Tucson Cine Mexico film festival—which, during seventeen years, created a vital platform for the exhibition of Mexican cinema in the U.S—is presenting monthly screenings of a mix of classic films, B movies, and new cinema with exceptional filmmakers and special guests for dialogue with the Tucson community.