Episode 36: Omar Lopex

It is Oscars week and so my guest today is Omar Lopex, a local San Diego video artist and now filmmaker. Omar came onto the podcast to discuss his first feature length film titled “Ana, Who They Pulled Out of the River”. We also discuss his previous work which employed analog formats including: wet-plate photography & 16mm / Super 8 film and has exhibited at the San Diego Art Institute, LOW Gallery, La Jolla Athenaeum, San Diego Museum of Art, Oceanside Museum of Art, and Santa Monica Museum of Art.

To learn more about Omar and his work visit his production studio website at www.standardfantastic.com.

You can also visit here to view some of his previous work.

  • Omar Lopex on set. (Image credit: Adrienne Joy)
  • Omar Lopex filming (Image credit: Adrienne Joy)
  • Omar on the set of “The Glorious Hole”, 2016 (Image cred. Matthew Herbert)
  • Still from “So, I was a Child”, 2018
  • Still from “Ana, Who Was Pulled from the River”
  • Still from “Ana, Who Was Pulled from the River”
  • Omar Lopex (Image credit: Tayo Oyekan)

Episode 17: Noé Olivas #2

This week we checked back in with San Diego artist Noé Olivas, who just recently finished an artist residency at the San Diego Art Institute (SDAI) and discussed the residency itself as well as the show that came out of it titled la/el/ellas/ellos/usted quinceañera/o. Noé also shares with us the topics and themes that led to the project. We then briefly discussed his recent feature in the San Diego Union Tribune which be read here.

la/el/ellas/ellos/usted quinceañera/o will be on exhibit til May 3, 2017 at the SDAI Project Space at Horton Plaza in San Diego, CA. To learn more about la/el/ellas/ellos/usted quinceañera/o visit Noé’s website at www.noeolivas.com. You can also follow Noé on Instagram at @calmatetupedo.

Thanks to Richie Cunning (@richiecunning) for providing the intro music.