Murals Olga 3/14 Inter RL #4 Plus Pics

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Scene 15, take one.

The murals provided the inspiration that allowed me to nurture the curiosity so that I took paths that my family had not taken before.

I went to college and then decided to go to graduate school, went into medicine, and after that psychiatry.

I feel that all these things are connected in that in a sense I became the translator.

I continued my role in the family, but in a way that opened up murals, if I may use that word, that were not and that perhaps are not there still for my own family that are not available as options, as ways of living.

The one desire I think is that more people in my community, in my own family also experience is breaking out from the protective walls that we also have built around ourselves.

Scene 16, take one.

The murals provided inspiration which allowed me to break from the constructions that I felt.

These were invisible constructions in a sense.

So that I took paths that my family had not taken before.

I finished high school and went to college and then decided to go into medicine and finally psychiatry.

In a way continued my role, but in a way that opened worlds for me both as far as concepts and geographically too.

And thinking back my hope is that that sort of that sense of inspiration also would become available to not only other members in my family, but also to other members of the community so that they perhaps be inspired to also open up to experience, to other experiences.

Scene 17, take one.

For an individual to grow beyond themselves, beyond their boundaries, they must dream.

In a sense they have to dream up themselves, what they will become.

For a community I think that at a certain level the murals provide this process of being the dreams of the community that allows the community to grow beyond itself, to evolve beyond itself.

And I think that...

That was pretty much what you said.

Scene 18, take one.

One moment here.

For an individual to grow beyond themselves, to evolve, they must dream.

They must dream themselves.

A community, the process in this process of growing beyond itself, murals are or can be used on a certain level, not conscious, as these dreams that allow the community to see what they might be and what they can become.

Identifier

F.2021-10-0021

Date Of Production

March 14 1989

Abstract

Sync sound footage of psychiatrist Olga Nuño discussing how murals can inspire communities. This footage was shot for an unfinished documentary about the visual language of murals in Chicago's Hispanic communities.

Format

16mm

Color

Color

Sound

Silent

Reel/Tape Number

1/1

Has Been Digitized?

Yes

Notes

The digital representation attached to this record consists of a 16mm negative picture element (F.2021-10-0021) synced with portions of a separate ¼" magnetic audio reel (Dobinsky 088).

Language Of Materials

English

Element

Negatives

Genre

Documentary

Form

Unedited
Interviews

Subject

Art
Street art
Hispanic Americans

Related Collections

Susan Dobinsky Collection

Main Credits

Dobinsky, Susan (is co-producer)

Dobinsky, Susan (is filmmaker)

Bayly, Ronn (is co-producer)

Regele, Susan (is co-producer)

Kurtz, Julia (is co-producer)

Participants And Performers

Nuño, Olga (is interviewee)

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