Jasmine Orpilla, performer, composer, singer, and pre-colonial martial artist, plays Chet, a duende, a slayer of hidden folk in one of a six-part short film series about the psychological effects of white supremacy. In interviews, actions, and written text, Orpilla describes the spirit of the times where those who must avenge injustice prepare.
Writer, director, interviewer: Asher Hartman. Featuring: Jasmine Orpilla, in their own words and performing written text. Shot by: Jasmine Orpilla under the direction of Asher Hartman and lighting director Chu-Hsuan Chang. Outdoor-indoor photography by Ian Byers-Gamber. Father sculpture by Brian Getnick. Handcrafted masks by Joe Seely. Titles by Jinha Song.
Lost Privilege Company rehearsing for a new work inspired by John Cassavetes’ film Husbands, thinking about love, the permeability of bodies, masculinity, whiteness, loss and inexpressible desire. This film, once so important to me as a barometer of freedom and masculinity, now registers as an inability to register violence, to admire it, normalize it and equate it with beauty.
Brian Getnick, Arne Gjelten, Tim Reid, and Asher Hartman (director) came together as The Lost Privilege Company in 2018 to interpret four poems from Blunt Research Group’s “The Work-Shy.” The Lost Privilege Company presented its performance at USC’s Brain and Creativity Institute in an evening of performances by scholar and historian Miroslava Chávez-García, writer M. Nourbese Philip, literary historian Caleb Smith and poet and scholar Daniel Tiffany. Video by Ian Byers-Gamber. This work has been recreated and filmed in the artist’s studio.
