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Film Screening:
A Problem With the GPS

Apr 9, 2026 4:30PM-6PM

Schermer Meeting Hall

Selected Video Works by Daniel Boord and Luis Valdovino

Daniel Boord and Luis Valdovino have been collaborating since 1990. Working at the fringes of art, ethnography, and documentary, they have invented their own form for their journeys: part travelogue, part essay, part scrapbook, and part poetry.  They favor an open road, wandering through everyday life and feeling their way through cultural histories, visible “in the soil” but rapidly vanishing. For example, in Contigo we spend a Sunday afternoon in San Antonio listening to a song sung by the son of one of the pioneers of conjunto music. In Not Enough Night, past and present converge in Longmont, Colorado, on the 50th anniversary of Jack Kerouac’s On the Road, as a small 1937 gas station, mentioned in the book, is moved to a new development in the suburbs. Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen was prompted by the auctioning off of the largest antiquarian bookstore in the United States in Archer City, Texas, where The Last Picture Show was written and filmed. And in their video Standards they tour the 20th century to bid it farewell.

Their work has been widely exhibited, including at the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; La Biennale di Venezia, Venice; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Oberhausen Film Festival, Oberhausen, Germany; Robert Flaherty Film Seminar; and the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis. They have been nominated twice for a Rockefeller Film/Video/Multimedia Fellowship.

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Daniel Boord

Department of Critical Media Practices Founding Chair and Professor (2015 to 2018) Dan Boordhas served as the acting director for the Center for Documentary and Ethnographic Media, as well as director of the Film Studies Program (2005 to 2009) and founding director of the Stan Brakhage Center (2011 to May 2015). Boord teaches creative documentary and media art. His video works have screened at Documenta Madrid and MoMA’s Documentary Fortnight. They have also twice been selected for screening at La Biennale Di Venezia, the Venice Film Festival. His works are in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Long Beach Museum in Long Beach, California (now part of the Getty Museum, Video Art Collection); and at the Art Museum at the University of California, Berkeley.

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Luis Valdovino

Luis Valdovino received a MFA from the University of Illinois in 1987. He is a Professor in the Art and Art History Department and has been in charge of the video area since 1993. Valdovino has received grants from the American Film Institute, the National Endowment for the Arts, Arts International/N.E.A., Illinois Arts Council, Colorado Council on the Arts, Helena Presents, and the Center for New Television, Chicago. His works have been included in numerous exhibitions including The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA; The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY; The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH; Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington DC; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Holland; The Institute of Contemporary Art, London, England; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France; Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes , Santiago, Chile; Museum of Image and Sound, Sao Paulo, Brazil; and Centro Nacional de las Artes, Mexico City, Mexico. Film Festival exhibitions include The Toronto Film Festival, Toronto, Canada; Edinburgh Film Festival, Edinburgh, Scotland; Berlin Video Festival, Berlin, Germany; World Wide Video Festival, The Hague, Holland; European Media Arts Festival, Osnabrück, Germany; Melbourne Film Festival, Melbourne, Australia; Videobrasil, Sao Paulo, Brazil; Oberhausen Film Festival, Germany and New York Video Festival, New York, NY. Valdovino’s videos have been presented at the 37th and 50th Robert Flaherty Film Seminar, The Kitchen, New York and broadcasted on “Independent Focus” at WNET, New York and Deep Dish Network, New York. He has curated the programs “La Voz Latina: Latina/o Video Art from the USA that have been screened throughout Latin America, Europe and the United States. Since 1990 Valdovino has been working in collaboration with video artist Dan Boord, Professor in Film Studies at the University of Colorado. They have produced several award-winning video works.

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