Kapra Fleming

Photography and Video Artist

Video

Dinners with Carlos (wip - excerpt)

Interviewer: Jeanne Salis  Video/Editor: Kapra Fleming 

For three months during the winter of 2002, Jeanne Salis and Kapra Fleming spent evenings cooking, sharing dinner and interviewing Carlos Cortez.

 

 

 

Calaca Videographica - 2005 - video still from multi-media installation with video loop. A collaboration with Miguel Lopez-Lemus, sculptor housed in the eyes of a 6 foot skull.  A reflection of Day of the Dead celebrations from Michoacan, Oaxaca and Queretero.

My name is Josefina - 2007 - Portrait of Oaxacan ceramic artist, Josefina Aguilar, well known for her hand-painted figurative clay work. 

 

 

Mexico se escribe con "M" de Muerte  -1995  A view of images from Day of the Dead celebrations using words from Mexican poets, an installation - collaboration with artist/husband, Miguel Lopez-Lemus.

 

Maxwell Street: A Portrait of Its Vendors, August 28, 1994 (21:31)   Filmed on the last day at "Maxwell Street" before the city moved the market to Canal Street,  vendors talk candidly about their concerns and hopes for the new location and their personal histories with the "old" market.

Full Suit (23:55) 1991 Portrait of "Blu-Bak" a fully tattooed septagenarian as he talks about how he started collecting a "Full Suit" of tattoos from his neck to his toes as we watch him get a new tattoo of a scuba diver in a small spot behind his knee, not previously filled.

Blu-Bak I (4:49) 1991 Set to original music composed by Robert Lombardo, these close-up shots of Blu-Bak's tattoos give a poetic look at the images that this human canvas collected.

Die Spuren 1991

A Parade of Two Cities 1991

 

Kapra Fleming
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Phone: 773 354-1239