The now-defunct conceptual art group Asco coined the phrase “No Movie” to refer to their fabricated film stills of nonexistent films. One such production, À la Mode, features a glamorous Patssi Valdez sandwiched between two men (Gronk and Harry Gamboa) as if to suggest a love-triangle movie plot.

2011年11月9日 · Asco’s invention of No Movies, or film stills for non-existent films, allowed the group to appropriate the spectacle of Hollywood even as they critiqued the absence of Chicanos in the mass media.

The now-defunct conceptual art group Asco coined the phrase “No Movie” to refer to their fabricated film stills of nonexistent films. One such production, À la Mode, features a glamorous Patssi Valdez sandwiched between two men (Gronk and Harry Gamboa) as if to suggest a love-triangle movie plot.

Patssi Valdez receiving No Movie Award for Best Actress: Taking the “No Movies” a step further, this is a performance play or parody of the Oscars and other glamorous ceremonies. Asco spray-painted a dime-store cobra gold and presented this “award” in a number of different categories celebrating artists’ contributions to “No Movies.”

2025年3月27日 · ASCO emerged at the height of the Chicano civil rights movement in the 1960s and 1970s. ... She had won best actress at the Aztlan No Movie Awards — a fictional award show ASCO created as ...

No Movie (Star) 1980 Asco No Movie (Stars) 1978 Asco No Canary 1977 Asco Patssi with Self Portrait 1974 API documentation; Images & permissions; Open access; Sign up for our newsletter. Here to help. Contact us; FAQ; Press; Accessibility; Get involved. Support us; ...

2016年4月2日 · The “No Movies” satirized the Hollywood machine while interrogating both the lack of Chicanos in the media and the stereotypical depictions of them when they were present. For Decoy Gang War Victim , Asco mailed a photograph of Gronk posed as a casualty of gang violence to several local press outlets, one of which broadcast it on television ...

2025年3月27日 · Harry Gamboa Jr., a founding member of the Chicano art collective Asco, poses for a portrait to promote the documentary film "ASCO: Without Permission" on Wednesday, March 19, 2025, in Los Angeles ...

Asco, No Movie (Stars), 1978. Gelatin silver print, sheet: 5 × 7 7/16 in. (12.7 × 18.9 cm) Image: 5 × 7 7/16 in. (12.7 × 18.9 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from the Photography Committee 2014.44.3. © 1974, Harry Gamboa Jr.

Before the advent of Facebook or Instagram, the artist group Asco invented a novel way to freely circulate artwork to their friends and “followers”: the No Movie—photographs of ephemeral, often impromptu performances. Asco’s No Movies traveled across the world through the mail, projecting cinematic fantasy and evoking mystery.