From executive producers Gael García Bernal and Diego Luna comes a genre-defying film that profiles the extraordinary, Los Angeles-based, Chicano art group of the 1970s-’80s, ASCO, who merged activism and art as they challenged representation in the art world, Hollywood and the news media. Local organization Chicanos on the Rise will be on-site tabling.
ON SCREEN: ASCO: Without Permission
2025. Directed by Travis Gutiérrez Senger. Runtime: 90 minutes.
ASCO: Without Permission is a genre-defying film that profiles the extraordinary, Los Angeles-based, Chicano art group of the 70’s-80’s, ASCO, who merged activism and art as they challenged representation in the art world, Hollywood and the news media. Unrecognized in their time, they are now being considered amongst the most important artists of the 20th century. Utilizing a wholly original approach to filmmaking in which nonfiction and fiction are interconnected through collaborative film works made with the next generation of Latinx artists, “Without Permission” reimagines what is possible in cinema and art today while celebrating an iconoclastic group that was far ahead of its time.