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Director/producer/editor: Jesse Lerner “T.S.H.” is a short experimental film based on the Estridentista poem by Luis Quintanilla (a.k.a. Kyn Taniya). The Estridentistas were a vanguard group similar to and influenced by the more familiar Dadaists and Futurists. The Estridentistas share with these other radical art movements the rejection of tradition--of Naturalism, Realism and Romanticism--in favor of estrangement and fragmentation. Like the Russian Constructivism that thrived in the early years of the Soviet Union , they saw their art as part of a larger project of sweeping social transformation, the building of a new, industrial, egalitarian society. As was the case with the |
16 mm b/w; 6 min. 22 sec.; 2004 
Futurists, the Estridentistas were fascinated by the machine age, movement, electricity and the industrial esthetic. They were based, however, in the pre-industrial towns of Xalapa (in the state of Veracruz ) and Puebla , far from the smokestacks and foundries of the European urban centers that inspired F. T. Marinetti and his cohorts. “T.S.H.” is an homage to a poorly-tuned radio, and finds transcendence, excitement and beauty in the ether. 
