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Enzo Camacho & Ami Lien: Langit Lupa, A Film Screening, Conversation, and Celebration

Event Details

DATE: Saturday, November 9, 2024 TIME: 5–10 PM

LOCATION: 2220 Arts + Archives, 2220 Beverly Blvd, Los Angeles

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TICKET PRICE: Free

Enzo Camacho and Ami Lien, Langit Lupa (Heaven and Earth), 2023. Film still. Courtesy of the artists.

Enzo Camacho and Ami Lien’s residency concludes with a weekend of free public programs at 2220 Arts + Archives on Nov 9 + 10. Come for film, talks, and a community celebration headlined by The Bootleg Orchestra, with treats from a community of friends in the LA Philippine food world. 

The evening begins with the Los Angeles premiere of the Berlin and New York-based duo’s newest film, Langit Lupa (Heaven and Earth) (2023). The film will be followed by a conversation between Enzo, Ami and Xenia Tupas, a movement elder who grew up on Negros Island, and whose personal history is intimately woven with the story in the film. A lifelong journalist and human rights activist, Xenia has served the same plantation workers who demanded systemic change during the people’s strike in 1985, fighting for peasant’s rights for fair land redistribution after the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Law was passed in the wake of Marcos’ deposition.

Join us after for Dapat Bawiin (We Shall Reclaim), a community celebration featuring a performance by Bootleg Orchestra, cash bar, more music and incredible food from a cohort of LA based Philippine chefs. All are welcome!

5 PM: Screening of Ami Lien & Enzo Camacho: Langit Lupa (Heaven and Earth) (2023)
6 PM: Talk with the artists and Xenia Tupas
7–10 PM: Dapat Bawiin (We Shall Reclaim), a Community Celebration

This program is part of a weekend long series of programs called Langit Lupa. For over a decade, Berlin and New York-based artists Enzo Camacho and Ami Lien have developed a multidisciplinary practice addressing geopolitical relations by attending to localized forms of dispossession, survival, and resistance, particularly in the context of the Philippines. Their current work pays particular attention to agricultural practices and the exploitation of land and labor in Negros, an island known for sugarcane production in the Philippines.

About the Artists

Bootleg Orchestra
Based in Los Angeles/Long Beach, Bootleg Orchestra is a trio that creates electronic/soul music as a soundtrack for collective and personal transformations occurring in the growing anti-imperialist and anti-fascist movement.  As cultural workers, Bootleg Orchestra mission is to create music that educates listeners on issues, advocate for community-led campaigns, and inspire...
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Ria Dolly Barbosa
Ria combines her traditional French culinary education with the Filipino flavors of her heritage. Beginning her training in time-honored French kitchens where hard work and initiative are expected, Ria is a product of prestigious Las Vegas restaurants: The Mansion at MGM Grand, Lutece, Michael Mina and Daniel Boulud Brasserie. After...
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Enzo Camacho & Ami Lien
Enzo Camacho and Ami Lien are artists and writers from the Philippines and the US, respectively. Together, they have an artistic practice that moves from the Philippines outward to other places, addressing localized iterations of labor and capital from the perspective of imperial damage. They have had solo exhibitions at...
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Cat Castaneda
Founder of Native Fields with her sister, Chef Cat has worked with her mentor Suzanne Goin at Lucques and a.o.c. and also helped to open Silverlake’s first fast-casual restaurant Forage. Chef Cat is a benefactor of an organic farm at Cal Poly Pomona where she has taught students and has...
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Xenia Tupas
Xenia Tupas made Los Angeles her home since 2005, working on retail and health care while continuing her advocacy on human rights and land rights in the Philippines. While in LA, she published “The Unfinished Business: Land Reform in the Sugarlands” which documented her first-hand experiences on land reform implementation...
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Credits

Enzo Camacho & Ami Lien: Langit Lupa (Heaven and Earth) is supported in part by the California Arts Council, a state agency. Learn more at www.arts.ca.gov.

This program is made possible in part by a grant from the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs.

Langit Lupa is organized by Active Cultures with support of artist TJ Shin as Project Manager.

Active Cultures year round programming is also made possible through the generous support of its Board of Directors; the Gatherers Annual Fund; the Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture as part of Creative Recovery LA, an initiative funded by the American Rescue Plan; and by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors through the Department of Arts and Cultures.