Poli Marichal

Education

Partial filmography

• Underwater Blues, "Hand painted, scratched animated Super 8 film examining the contradictions of the psychopathology of colonization."
• Al Rojo Vivo, "This work recreates the spirit of frustration and is the result of scratching and painting the tiny super 8 mm frame without magnification. The soundtrack was performed with a percussion instrument and voice."
• Guernica, "Experimental Super 8 film featuring animated 3-D puppets based on the characters in Picasso’s painting."
• Blues Tropical, "First part of the Trilogy of the Island in which Poli Marichal expresses and vents the anger and frustration caused by the colonial situation."
• Isla Postal, "Hand painted, scratched Super 8 film meditating on Puerto Rico’s political status through the layering of traditional Bomba music and governmental speeches."
• Coffee Break, "Experimental film which incorporates a range of materials, ink, coloring pencils, watercolors, and graphite, to narrate the story of a woman who is transformed into a cat while she drinks the celebrated beverage of the island, coffee."
• Los espejísmos de Mandrágora Luna.
• Son Africaribeño.

  Public collections

• Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
• Mexican Fine Arts Museum, Chicago, Illinois
• Casa de las Américas, Havana, Cuba
• The Institute of Puerto Rican Culture, San Juan, Puerto Rico
• The University of Puerto Rico Museum of Anthropology, History and Art, Puerto Rico
• Institute for Latino Studies University of Notre Dame, Indiana
• Galería Sin Fronteras, Austin, Texas
• The Benson Latin American Collection at the University of Texas at Austin, Texas
• The Center for Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College, New York
• Donald C. Davidson Library at the University of Santa Barbara
• Vincent Price Art Museum, California
• Laguna Art Museum, Orange County Art Museum, California
• Huntington Museum, University of Texas, Austin, Texas
• The Gerald Buck Collection
• Colección Reyes-Veray, San Juan, Puerto Rico